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Asked: 2026-05-24T04:12:47+00:00

I have a paragraph with various html elements. Some links, some input boxes, etc.

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I have a paragraph with various html elements. Some links, some input boxes, etc. The TAB button changes focus from the current element to the next html element: it jumps from link to link. Is it possible to set a specific html element to be “skipped” from such focus from the TAB button?

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    The tabindex attribute controls tabbing. Set it to -1 and the tab key will not stop on that element.

    <input tabindex="-1" />

    Set it to a non-negative number and you can control the tab order. From the W3C spec:

    The following elements support the tabindex attribute: A, AREA,
    BUTTON, INPUT, OBJECT, SELECT, and TEXTAREA.

    In HTML5 you can use the tabindex attribute on any element. From HTML5 differences from HTML4:

    Several attributes from HTML4 now apply to all elements. These are called global attributes: accesskey, class, dir, id, lang, style, tabindex and title.

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