Why Won't Tabindex Work with Firefox?

Question

I\'m trying to use the tabindex text input attribute to allow users to tab between fields on this page: https://seatgeek.com/login/. This works perfectly in all browsers (e

Answer 1

Because of the length of this, I decided to post it as an 'answer' rather than 'comment.' It's a bit on the edge of the definitions of both, though.

It works for me, using Firefox 3.6.10 on Ubuntu 10.04. Having said that, it appears that there's no :focus style applied (or, more likely, they've done the usual outline: none; to remove the :focus indication), which makes it annoying.

Is your status bar displayed? If not, there's no way you'd able to know where the focus is. Just in case:

View -> ✓ Status Bar

Failing that, I'm not sure why it wouldn't be working for you.