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How to set Tab Order on WebForms
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06/06/2005 13:51:40
 
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Environment:
C# 1.1
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01020349
Message ID:
01020597
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>1. The generated HTML gets nasty-looking - control tags run on one after another without line breaks etc. Are there any global settings that control that kind of thing?
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>Unfortunately not - in order to generate "pretty" html you have to hand code it yourself.

Too bad. I thought someone might have come up with a "beautify" utility for this.

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>2. The tab order depends (by default) on the control order in the HTML. Is there any way to get VS to do the grunt work of moving controls around in the HTML so the tab order is what I want?
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>There is a property on the controls called TabIndex whick you can set to set the tab order.

The help for WebControl.TabIndex says "This property is supported only in Internet Explorer 4 and later." As a user primarily of FireFox I'd not be completely happy using this.

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>3. Is there any way to set the "focus" on a form to a given control, rather than the browser's address bar?
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>This is another one of those unfortunate situation which requires a little bit of javascript - if you google "asp.net set focus" you find quite a few .NET sites that will explain how you can easily accomplish this... Not only that you can also choose which one fits your situation.
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>Hope this helps!


OK, I'll take a look at it. Thanks!
Regards. Al

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