Is Dreamweaver (or an extension) able to automatically add tabindex's?

Thanks!

Matt

What is a "tabindex"?

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> Is Dreamweaver (or an extension) able to automatically add tabindex's?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt

DW does not have this natively and I don't think there are any extensions. How many fields do have that you really need this?

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> Is Dreamweaver (or an extension) able to automatically add tabindex's?

Why do you want to "automatically add tabindex"? To allow an element to get
focus or to create a tab order?
If it is the latter, you should try to work on the HTML flow instead.


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I was adding the tabindex attribute for accessibility and to make my form
easier to use. It's a pretty long form (roughly 110 fields) so it's been quite
the experience organizing the tab indexes. The HTML flows pretty well but I
was just curious if there was any way to make the tabindexing easier.

Thanks,
Matt

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>I was adding the tabindex attribute for accessibility and to make my form
> easier to use. It's a pretty long form (roughly 110 fields) so it's been
> quite
> the experience organizing the tab indexes. The HTML flows pretty well but
> I
> was just curious if there was any way to make the tabindexing easier.

Hi Matt
Using tabindex is not *necessary* for accessibility unless the natural
tabbing order would be non logical without it.
In any case, if you do need to use them, make sure to increment values by
more than 1, in case later you need to add new form controls in your
document.

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Thanks for the suggestion Thierry. I didn't realize you could skip numbers in
the order and still have it follow the order properly. However, I didn't find
a satisfactory way of adding the tabindex to a large form. I simply used the
Find/Replace window to add the tabindex attribute to all input tags. Each time
I hit "replace" I would just increment the value. So, even though I had to go
one by one, it was easier than doing it in the code.

Thank you everyone, I appreciate your .

Matt