Re: Removing a Control from the taborder

From	Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Removing a Control from the taborder
Date	2012-03-10 06:18 -0500
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On 03/10/2012 01:40 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> 2012-03-10 5:59, Norman Peelman wrote:
>
>> On 03/09/2012 07:42 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>
> Please don't feed the troll.
>
>>> Your logic is flawed. The HTML 4.01 Specification is definitive about
>>> this:
>>> values for the `tabindex' attribute outside the specified range are
>>> *invalid*. It is specified accordingly in W3C DOM Level 2 HTML:
>>
>> Invalid,
>
> Validity, as HTML 4.01 concept, is off-topic here, and it is defined in
> the HTML 4.01 specification, not in DOM specifications. As it happens,
> tabindex=-1 is invalid as per HTML 4.01, but not because of any
> out-of-range issue. It is invalid because the tabindex attribute is
> declared as NUMBER, which means a character-level restriction (only
> digits are allowed).
>
>  > thereby causing the tabindex to be ignored.
>
> No, the HTML 4.01 specification imposes no such requirement on error
> processing. And browsers do not ignore tabindex=-1.
>

   I meant the form element would be ignored (skipped) while tabbing. 
Poor wording on my part.

> If it is relevant, for some reason, that the markup in an HTML file
> conforms to an HTML 4.01 DTD, then you can still set tabindex to a
> negative value via JavaScript. Just note that in JavaScript, the
> corresponding property is spelled tabIndex.
>

   As I indicated in another post. Somewhere...

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Norman
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Thread

Removing a Control from the taborder Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-08 13:56 -0800
  Re: Removing a Control from the taborder "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-09 00:07 +0000
    Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-08 19:37 -0800
      Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-09 18:56 -0500
        Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-10 01:42 +0100
          Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-09 22:59 -0500
            Re: Removing a Control from the taborder "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-03-10 08:40 +0200
              Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-10 06:18 -0500
                Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-10 13:33 +0100
            Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-10 12:33 +0100
          Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-09 23:22 -0500
      Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Dr J R Stockton <reply1210@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 20:51 +0000
        Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-10 23:55 -0800
          Re: Removing a Control from the taborder Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-03-12 19:46 +0000
          Re: Removing a Control from the taborder David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 18:24 -0700

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