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fab1967

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Posted: 11/22/2005, 10:56 AM

I have a problem with the tabindex property.
I have a lot of controls (textboxes) in an editable grid, so I modified HTML code to spit it into 2 sub-rows. layout is like this:

<sub-row1>text1 text3 ...textn-1
<sub-row2>text2 text4 ...textn

Now for the intereseting part: if I leave the tabindex property of the textboxes blank, the tab key moves the focus from left to right, so it goes from text1 to text3; this is not what I wish.
it should go down from text1 to text2, then move up to text3, and so on.
If I write values in the tabindex property of the various textboxes then the behaviour becomes very odd:
it moves from text1 of the first row then to text1 of the second row(i.e. database record), and so on.

any suggestion to fix this behaviour?

thanks

fabrizio
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Posted: 11/23/2005, 2:13 AM

We would like to resolve any potential remaining issues in CCS, therefore could you please contact our product support at http://support.yessoftware.com. They would with you on resolving such issues.
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DonB
Posted: 11/23/2005, 4:50 AM

If what you want is the tabbing to go down each column, then assign (in the
HTML template) increasing numbers (from left to right) to each control of
each column of the grid (1,2,3,4,... n). So in the live page, all the
elements in each column will have the same tabindex. NOTE: you do NOT need
to assign unique tabindex values to each and every control in the grid.

Not specifying the tabindex results in tabbing in in the order the elements
appear in the html, but their placement in the overall tab sequence of the
page is AFTER all elements that DO have a tabindex assigned. For 'groups'
of elements (those sharing the same tabindex), the groups are tabbed in
order by tabindex (all the '1's, all the '2's, and so on).


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"fab1967" <fab1967@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
news:4438369d856f05@news.codecharge.com...
> I have a problem with the tabindex property.
> I have a lot of controls (textboxes) in an editable grid, so I modified
HTML
> code to spit it into 2 sub-rows. layout is like this:
>
> <sub-row1>text1 text3 ...textn-1
> <sub-row2>text2 text4 ...textn
>
> Now for the intereseting part: if I leave the tabindex property of the
> textboxes blank, the tab key moves the focus from left to right, so it
goes
> from text1 to text3; this is not what I wish.
> it should go down from text1 to text2, then move up to text3, and so on.
> If I write values in the tabindex property of the various textboxes then
the
> behaviour becomes very odd:
> it moves from text1 of the first row then to text1 of the second row(i.e.
> database record), and so on.
>
> any suggestion to fix this behaviour?
>
> thanks
>
> fabrizio
> ---------------------------------------
> Sent from YesSoftware forum
> http://forums.codecharge.com/
>

fab1967

Posts: 2
Posted: 11/23/2005, 8:12 AM

thank you for your suggestions, but it only partially solves my problem.
to be more specific, I am working on a form to schedule the working timetable of the employees of a firm; the layout comes from the old excel sheet the customer was accostumed to, and that actually makes sense:

each row (in its CodeCharge meaning) in the grid refers to a single employee. I have 28 textboxes in each row, split into two sub-rows of 14:
<employee1>
[Monday morning start] [monday afternoon start] ....
[monday morning end] [monday afternoon end] ....
(repeated for 7 days = 28 textboxes total)

<employee2> etc etc

referring to my previous exemple, [monday morning start]=text1, [monday morning end]=text2, [monday afternoon start]=text3, and so on.

it would be nice to fill the whole week for employee1, then for employee2, and so on. this is also what the customer expects, BTW...
but so far I did not succeed.

thanks

fabrizio

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