Setting the Tab Order for Links
Some browsers let users navigate through the links, image maps, and form elements with the Tab key. You can determine a custom tab order, to emphasize certain elements.
To set the tab order:
In the link’s tag, type tabindex="n", where n is the number that sets the tab order.
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To activate a link the visitor must tab to it and then press Enter.
The value for tabindex can be any number between 0 and 32767. Use a negative value to take a link out of the tab sequence altogether.
By default, the tab order depends on the order of the elements in the (X)HTML code. When you change the tab order, the lower-numbered elements are activated first, followed by higher-numbered ones.
Elements with the same tab index value ...
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