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Re: visual focus for anchor tags

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 14, 2011 2:48PM

William Lawrence wrote:

> Expected browser behavior is that only when an anchor element contains
> an HREF attribute in the opening anchor tag will the anchor element
> ever receive visual focus.

I would not expect an anchor (A) element without HREF to ever receive focus
without extra code (such as TABINDEX attribute). Maybe that's what you meant
too, but I wanted to emphasize that it's not just a matter of missing visual
indication of focus - the element just isn't part of the tabbing order or
otherwise focusable.

The URL of a problem page would have helped a lot in addressing the problem.
Actually, without it, there probably isn't much more one can say about it.

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