How to ignore HTML element from tabindex

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Is there any way in HTML to tell the browser not to allow tab indexing on particular elements   On my page though there is a sideshow which is rendered with jQuery  when you tab through that  you get a lot of tab presses before the tab control moves to the next visible link on the page as all the things being tabbed through are hidden to the user visually

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The way to do this is by adding tabindex  -1   By adding this to a specific element  it becomes unreachable by the keyboard navigation  There is a great article here that will help you further understand tabindex

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Just add the attribute disabled to the element  or use jQuery to do it for you   Disabled prevents the input from being focused or selected at all

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If these are elements naturally in the tab order like buttons and anchors  removing them from the tab order with tabindex  quot -1 quot  is kind of an accessibility smell  If they re providing duplicate functionality removing them from the tab order is ok  and consider adding aria-hidden  quot true quot  to these elements so assistive technologies will ignore them

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You can use tabindex  -1    The W3C HTML5 specification supports negative tabindex values      If the value is a negative integer   The user agent must set the element s tabindex focus flag  but should not allow the element to be reached using sequential focus navigation      Watch out though that this is a HTML5 feature and might not work with old browsers  To be W3C HTML 4 01 standard  from 1999  compliant  tabindex would need to be positive     Sample usage below in pure HTML    x000D   x000D   lt input   gt  x000D   lt input tabindex  -1  placeholder  NoTabIndex    gt  x000D   lt input   gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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If you are working in a browser that doesn t support  tabindex  -1   you may be able to get away with just giving the things that need to be skipped a really high tab index  For example tabindex  500  basically moves the object s tab order to the end of the page   I did this for a long data entry form with a button thrown in the middle of it  It s not a button people click very often so I didn t want them to accidentally tab to it and press enter  disabled wouldn t work because it s a button

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Don t forget that  even though tabindex is all lowercase in the specs and in the HTML  in Javascript the DOM that property is called tabIndex   Don t lose your mind trying to figure out why your programmatically altered tab indices calling element tabindex   -1 isn t working  Use element tabIndex   -1

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Such hack like  tabIndex -1  not work for me with Chrome v53   This is which works for chrome  and most browsers    x000D   x000D  function removeTabIndex element    x000D      element removeAttribute  tabindex    x000D    x000D   lt input tabIndex  1    gt  x000D   lt input tabIndex  2  id  notabindex    gt  x000D   lt input tabIndex  3    gt  x000D   lt button tabIndex  4  onclick  removeTabIndex document getElementById  notabindex     gt Remove tabindex lt  button gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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