Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > I found that, even when using NAME, IE (particularly IE6/SP2 on > WinXP/SP2) can exhibit this same behaviour of "forgetting" the right > tab order. In fact, I just created a super simple page where my IE > (version and OS as above) just does that > http://dev.splintered.co.uk/IE_tab_order/.
Hi Patrick, That's correct, NAME by itself is not bullet proof, but if you include a href attribute in the named anchor (as mentionned in my post) it "fixes" MSIE. Try: <a href="#" name="content"></a> and you'll see that IE gets it right. > And, in a weird twist, there are situations where, even using ID / > fragment identifiers, IE gets it right (see for instance I've also seen cases where it works fine, but I still have no clue why ;-) FYI: I've also found out that styling an A element with no content (a "regular" anchor) using "position:absolute" makes MSIE ignore the "location" of this element, so IE does not jump to that anchor. Anyway, it is important for people implementing "skip nav" links to *check* them in IE to see if they work with keyboard navigation. Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com | CSS-P Templates compatible NN4.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - | CSS Popups | CSS Tabs | CSS Dropdown Menus | Articles and Tutorials | ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
