Field jumping with tab key problem

[atferraz]

Hello, I’m making a login flash page and get the focus for the user name text Field. But when I hit the tab key, the focus goes to the browser url. However if I use the mouse to focus the password text Field, the shift+tab and tab works well.

Any suggestions are welcome.

[bradyj]

That's a browser issue and the fact that you are using flash -- flash is self contained, and annoyingly not accessible, so it cannot interact with the browser the same way as what you're expecting. I see this problem with all flash sites, including Macromedia's!

[AaronW]

Yeah, I love that Macromedia's menu is done in Flash. Could accomplish the same thing with CSS and a bit of JS, though without the fade, and it'd be more user-friendly. No idea why they did it in Flash...

[bradyj]

Yeah, I love that Macromedia's menu is done in Flash. Could accomplish the same thing with CSS and a bit of JS, though without the fade, and it'd be more user-friendly. No idea why they did it in Flash...

Just to whor... I mean sell their own product. That would probably be doable CSS alone if IE would be able to handle it... maybe even an animated background image, though safari wouldn't read that... frustrating...

[chilipie]

I read an article on webmonkey a while ago, showing you how to get the tab key to work in a Flash form. I'll try and find it and post it for you later.

[]|V|[agnus]

Yeah, I love that Macromedia's menu is done in Flash. Could accomplish the same thing with CSS and a bit of JS, though without the fade, and it'd be more user-friendly. No idea why they did it in Flash...

They actually did do it with CSS and a bit of JS AND kept the fade. Check it out in a Flash-disabled browser.