[thelist] Radio button tab problem

[Rich Gray]

Bryan (and others),

Thanks for your replies...

Well unfortunately tabindex isn't really a solution for an IE user who uses
the TAB key to navigate through a form and expects to access all widgets on
the screen... my users don't seem to like using arrow keys ...

It seems from my limited tests with IE that ...

. it has no effect when a radio is already selected in that only the
selected button is tabbed to...
. it will allow tabbing to the lowest tabindex value (if not the first radio
button) when nothing has been selected but that is all

Oh well..

Rich
>
> Or just <input type="radio" name="myGroupName" tabindex="1">
>
>
> Rich Gray wrote:
>
> > Now when an IE user uses the tab key to navigate the form it will
> > only tab to either the 1st button (if none are selected) or the
> > selected button so it is impossible to tab between all the radio
> > buttons on the form. It seems to work OK with Opera and Mozilla but
> > not with IE. I can give each radio button a different name and IE
> > will then tab happily between the buttons but that breaks the
> > grouping...
> >
> > Any workarounds without using JavaScript?
>
>     Once you have tabbed to a radio input, use the arrow keys to
> navigate to
> the other radio inputs within that group.
>
> James Aylard
> evolt at pixelwright.com