[ACCEPTED]-Submit button not focused even though tabindex is properly set-tabindex

Accepted answer

Score: 17

It's a Mac 'feature' to only let you tab 3 thought input boxes and lists by default. Tabbing 2 through all controls is an advanced option:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Pressing+Tab+key+does+not+select+menus+or+buttons

Firefox 1 on Mac copies this default OS behavior.

Score: 14

This is a Mac OS X issue. Your Mac may be 12 configured to not allow you to tab to non-textfield 11 elements (e.g., buttons). You can change 10 this by going into system preferences for 9 keyboard. Then click on the shorcut tab 8 and look at the bottom and choose the option 7 to allow focus on all controls. You should 6 now be able to focus on the buttons on Safari 5 and Firefox in addition to all buttons in 4 Mac OS.

To quickly change the setting on 3 your Mac, press CTRL + F7 (or if you're 2 using a Mac Keyboard, try holding down the 1 Function Key and pressing CTRL + F7).

Score: 4

Ok, let's see. I have tried above code in 14 Firefox (Mac, Windows), Safari (Mac) and 13 IE (Windows). Here are my findings:

When 12 using

<button name="thename" type="submit">Subscribe</button>

<input id=\"inputsubmit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\">

for submitting the form (same result):

FF (Win) - When tabbing, the focus does hit the button
FF (Mac) - When tabbing, the focus is not hitting the button.
Safari (Mac) - When tabbing, the focus is not hitting the button.
IE (Win) - When tabbing, the button seems to be in some kind of focus all the time and the button will have some extra focus when tabbing to i.
For all, when an item inside the form has the focus it's possible to just hit enter in order to "click" the submit button.

I 11 guess the conclusion has to be like this:

Different 10 browsers behave differently. Even the same 9 browser behaves differently on different 8 OS (FF).
The default behaviour of a form 7 is that hitting enter will submit the form 6 using the first submit button in the form.
I 5 think it's a pitty that the focus wont hit 4 the button when tabbing because I think 3 that quite a lot of users expect the focus 2 on the item before hitting enter.

Or what 1 do you say...?

Source: stackoverflow.com

[ACCEPTED]-Submit button not focused even though tabindex is properly set-tabindex

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