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Thread: Minor Log On Issue

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    Minor Log On Issue

    This is nothing that is a major issue, but something that bugs me from time to time.

    When I enter my username, I instinctively tab to the password (I use my keyboard as mush as possible), but tabbing takes the cursor to the bottom of the page in the username box down there.

    Is this just a bug?

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    If you tab twice, though, it will go to the password field. Don't ask me why.
    Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

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    People wanted the Logon box at the bottom of the screen as well as at the top. Fraser popped it in, but there's an issue with the code that messes up the tabbing. You need to hit it twice to go where you want to go.

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    It's pretty obvious from a quick glance at the HTML that the
    problem is caused by duplicated "tabindex" numbers: The same
    set of numbers (101 though 104) appear at the top and bottom
    of the page. I'd reccommend changing the numbers at the
    bottom to 201 through 204, or the like.

    -- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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    were just going to sit here and look." -- "Van Rijn"

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    point of rockets is to explore them!" -- Kai Yeves

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    That's a problem when the loginbox is done by an include that's included twice, thus the identical tabindex numbers.
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    Yeah, people wanted me to put that toolbar down at the bottom as well as the top, so it duplicated the tab order.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
    That's a problem when the loginbox is done by an include
    that's included twice, thus the identical tabindex numbers.
    Ah. Well, Fraser could probably copy the include or edit it
    to contain a second copy of the code, with altered numbers,
    and then have the program call the two different includes.
    Easier than making the numbers variables, I'd guess.

    -- Jeff, in Minneapolis
    http://www.FreeMars.org/jeff/

    "I find astronomy very interesting, but I wouldn't if I thought we
    were just going to sit here and look." -- "Van Rijn"

    "The other planets? Well, they just happen to be there, but the
    point of rockets is to explore them!" -- Kai Yeves

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