Re: Setting focus on div with Mozilla

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<42db9003$0$6369$5a62ac22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
RobG <rgqld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sander Tekelenburg wrote:

[...]

> > How? How do you set that focus with the keyboard in IE?
>
> In most browsers, pressing the 'tab' key will move between UI features
> that can have focus (including the address bar or location field).

Right. My favourite browser also allows tabbing through frames, to
activate them and then be able to scroll them. No keyboard required. IMO
it should do the same with other scrollable objects. (It does not. The
author reads this group. Hopefully he'll pick up this suggestion ;))

> If a scrolling div contains an element that can have focus (A, INPUT,
> BUTTON, LABEL etc.) [...]
> Once one of them has focus, the up/down arrow keys can be used to
> scroll the div. If the scrolling does not contain any elements that
> can have focus, it can't be scrolled with the keyboard.

A Webpage that consists of only text can still be scrolled with the
keyboard in most browsers. And most browsers would allow tabbing to
alternate between activating the content area and the URL field. Nothing
to do with HTML specs, everything with UI design.

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Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>
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