JavaScript (JS) tabIndex Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) tabIndex Example

JavaScript (JS) tabIndex Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) tabIndex Example

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: object.tabIndex=Index – Allows you to retrieve or assign tabbing order for objects.

Restrictions: None

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for hrefuage
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DOMAnchor”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DOMAnchor
  6. Add New subfolder to “DOMAnchor” subfolder named “AnchorObjectProperties”
    • Right-click subfolder named “DOMAnchor” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: AnchorObjectProperties
  7. Add HTML Page Named tabIndex to AnchorObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click AnchorObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be tabIndex
  8. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page tabIndex.htm
  9. Right-click on HTML page tabIndex.htm and select view in browser
View Example In Browser
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>IdealProgrammer.com: tabIndex </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
    -->
 
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <input id="Button1" type="button" tabindex="2" value="Button1" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button2" type="button" tabindex="1" value="Button2" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button3" type="button" tabindex="0" value="Button3" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button4" type="button" tabindex="3" value="Button4" /><br /><br />
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // tabIndex
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    object.tabindex="index"  Allows you to retrieve or assign  
       //               the tabbing order for an object
 
       // Two ways to retrieve accessKey   
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
       myObject = document.getElementsByTagName('input')[0];
       document.write("Button1  Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.tabIndex);
       document.write("<br />");
       //   2. GetElementById
       document.write("Button2  Using getElementById: ");
       document.write(document.getElementById('Button2').tabIndex);
 
       document.write("<br /><br />");
       // Two ways to assign accessKey
 
       //   1. GetElementById
       myThirdButton = document.getElementById('Button3');
       myThirdButton.tabIndex = "3";
       document.write("<br />Button3 tabIndex changed to 3: ", myThirdButton.tabIndex);
 
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
       myFourthButton = document.getElementsByTagName('input')[3];
       myFourthButton.tabIndex = "0";
       document.write("<br />Button4 tabIndex changed to 0: ", myFourthButton.tabIndex)
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>