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TextField.tabIndex

TextField, TextField.tabIndex, tabIndex

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

`TextField``.tabIndex`

Parameters

None.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Property; lets you customize the tab ordering of objects in a movie. You can set the `tabIndex` property on a button, movie clip, or text field instance; it is `undefined` by default.

If any currently displayed object in the Flash movie contains a `tabIndex` property, automatic tab ordering is disabled, and the tab ordering is calculated from the `tabIndex` properties of objects in the movie. The custom tab ordering only includes objects that have `tabIndex` properties.

The `tabIndex` property must be a positive integer. The objects are ordered according to their `tabIndex` properties, in ascending order. An object with a `tabIndex` of `1` precedes an object with `tabIndex 2`. If two objects have the same `tabIndex` value, the one that precedes the other in the tab ordering is `undefined`.

The custom tab ordering defined by the `tabIndex` property is flat. This means that no attention is paid to the hierarchical relationships of objects in the Flash movie. All objects in the Flash movie with `tabIndex` properties are placed in the tab order, and the tab order is determined by the order of the `tabIndex` values. If two objects have the same `tabIndex` value, the one that goes first is `undefined`. You shouldn't use the same `tabIndex` value for multiple objects.