[whatwg] tabindexscope

[Simon Pieters]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:07:04 +0100, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> We keep running into the use case where the physical position matters for
> the tab order. The problem with just setting tabIndex (or CSS3 tab-index)
> is that it takes the thing out of the natural order.
>
> This problem comes up in a lot of places (e.g. absolute positioning).  
> It's
> recently come up for CSS flexboxes, e.g. if you set flex-order or a  
> reverse
> flow, then the tabindex still being in document order is often not what  
> the
> author wants (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62664).

http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-August/007228.html  
:-)

> <button tabindex=0>A</button>
> <div tabindex=2 tabindexscope>
> <button tabindex=2>C</button>
> <button tabindex=1>B</button>
> </div>
> <button tabindex=1>D</button>
>
> The order for the tabbing would be A-D-B-C.

In legacy UAs the div would also be in the tab order. Maybe it's better to  
drop tabindex=2 and use tabindexscope=2 instead (default to 0 if omitted).

> Ojan


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Simon Pieters
Opera Software