Attribute for
<TEXTAREA ...>
Normally, when the user tabs from field to field in a form (in a browser that allows tabbing, not all browsers do) the tab order is the order the fields appear in the HTML code.
However, sometimes you want the tab
order to flow a little differently. In that case, you can number the fields using
This code:
<TABLE BORDER CELLPADDING=3 CELLSPACING=5 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> <TR> <TD>name: <INPUT NAME="realname" TABINDEX=1></TD> <TD ROWSPAN=3>comments<BR> <TEXTAREA COLS=25 ROWS=5 TABINDEX=4></TEXTAREA></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>email: <INPUT NAME="email" TABINDEX=2></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>department: <SELECT NAME="dep" TABINDEX=3> <OPTION VALUE="">... <OPTION VALUE="mkt">Marketing <OPTION VALUE="fin">Finance <OPTION VALUE="dev">Development <OPTION VALUE="prd">Production</SELECT></TD></TR> </TABLE> produces this form:
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