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Re: In-page links and programmatic focus

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 12, 2016 2:10PM

Paul Adam wrote:
>
> If the in page link goes to a focusable element like with tabindex=-1
> then keyboard focus will shift to that element properly.

This was not the case for a long time with Chrome and Safari (and IE
under some conditions) - thus many people used JavaScript to set
focus. I believe these bugs have been fixed within the last year or
so.

Jared