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Re: XHTML tab order and Flash

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Aug 18, 2009 9:10AM

On 18/08/2009 15:54, Steven Henderson wrote:
> However, any ideas as to why in Firefox, Flash receives the tab focus before
> XHTML links on the page, even though they are higher up in the markup?

IIRC the Flash focus script works by setting "tabindex" attributes.

Per the HTML spec, links with an explicit "tabindex" receive focus
before links without "tabindex".

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis