[whatwg] Are unfocusable elements focusable with tabIndex="-1".

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Wed Apr 23 02:58:56 PDT 2008


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:35:39 +0200, Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev at moonset.net>  
wrote:
> I checked with Opera and they also do tabindex="-1" makes anything  
> focusable. So the spec is out of line with implementations.

Note that for

   http://tc.labs.opera.com/html/global-attributes/tabindex/004.htm

implementations do differ.

I think it would make sense for Firefox and Opera (and Safari) to align  
with Internet Explorer and "ignore" the tabindex attribute when it has an  
invalid value specified.


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Anne van Kesteren
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<http://www.opera.com/>



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