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Brad Covell
Wondering if anyone has a workaround for this or if MS is watching please
take note for Office 14.
I have an InfoPath form with controls defined below.
TextBox - Tab Index is 1
TextBox - Tab Index is 2
Date Picker - Tab Index is 3
TextBox - Tab Index is 4
TextBox - Tab Index is 0
If I tab through these fields, it goes down the line 1, 2, 3, 4, 0 as
expected. However, if I tab from 1 to 2, 2 to 3 and then choose a date using
the calendar and then tab again it goes down to the textbox with tab index
of 0. Why does this happen? Because the small calendar icon seems to be it's
own control and gets focused on, it's tab index is presumably 0 even though
the entire Date Picker control is 3. So when I tab from the calendar icon it
goes to the next tab index of 0 which is expected. However, this is not an
expected behavior from a user perspective or from any other perspective for
that matter.
That entire Date Picker control should have a tab index of 3 not just the
text portion of the control but the entire control including the small
calendar icon.
This same behavior seems to occur for radio buttons and drop down controls
as well. If instead you replace the Date Picker with a Drop Down control and
the user selects a value, the next tab is to a control with a tab index of
0, even though it's expected that it should be 4 (using the example above).
Thanks
Brad
take note for Office 14.
I have an InfoPath form with controls defined below.
TextBox - Tab Index is 1
TextBox - Tab Index is 2
Date Picker - Tab Index is 3
TextBox - Tab Index is 4
TextBox - Tab Index is 0
If I tab through these fields, it goes down the line 1, 2, 3, 4, 0 as
expected. However, if I tab from 1 to 2, 2 to 3 and then choose a date using
the calendar and then tab again it goes down to the textbox with tab index
of 0. Why does this happen? Because the small calendar icon seems to be it's
own control and gets focused on, it's tab index is presumably 0 even though
the entire Date Picker control is 3. So when I tab from the calendar icon it
goes to the next tab index of 0 which is expected. However, this is not an
expected behavior from a user perspective or from any other perspective for
that matter.
That entire Date Picker control should have a tab index of 3 not just the
text portion of the control but the entire control including the small
calendar icon.
This same behavior seems to occur for radio buttons and drop down controls
as well. If instead you replace the Date Picker with a Drop Down control and
the user selects a value, the next tab is to a control with a tab index of
0, even though it's expected that it should be 4 (using the example above).
Thanks
Brad