Tabbing in IFrames: IE 6

Ryan Stewart · Feb 10, 2004

Using IE 6... When focus is within an IFrame and you press Tab, it tends to
move the focus to the next component after the IFrame rather than to the
next one within it. Is there some way to overcome this? I tried setting the
IFrame's tabIndex to -1, but that only seems to work when it feels like it.
As much as I would like to do so, removing the IFrame is not an option at
this time, so I don't need that suggestion. Although if you have any
constructive advice or helpful links on how to get IFrame-like behavior
(loading a page within a page) in another, more cross-browser compatible
way, it could be useful in the future.

mscir · Feb 10, 2004

Ryan said:
Using IE 6... When focus is within an IFrame and you press Tab, it tends to
move the focus to the next component after the IFrame rather than to the
next one within it. Is there some way to overcome this? I tried setting the
IFrame's tabIndex to -1, but that only seems to work when it feels like it.
As much as I would like to do so, removing the IFrame is not an option at
this time, so I don't need that suggestion. Although if you have any
constructive advice or helpful links on how to get IFrame-like behavior
(loading a page within a page) in another, more cross-browser compatible
way, it could be useful in the future.

Ryan,

I loaded an iframe into IE6, Netscape 7.1, and tab worked fine in both
browsers, selecting successive items in the page loaded into the iframe
(code below).

How about you post your code so I can try to replicate the problem?

<body>
<P>
<IFRAME SRC="http://www.google.com" WIDTH="80%" HEIGHT=400></IFRAME>
<IFRAME SRC="http://www.atomz.com" WIDTH="20%" HEIGHT=400></IFRAME>
</P>
</body>

Mike

Toby A Inkster · Feb 10, 2004

Ryan said:
lthough if you have any constructive advice or helpful links on how to
get IFrame-like behavior (loading a page within a page) in another, more
cross-browser compatible way, it could be useful in the future.

Server side includes with scrolling <div> elements:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/scratch/twopages-source

and the results:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/scratch/twopages

Mark Parnell · Feb 10, 2004

helpful links on how to get IFrame-like behavior
(loading a page within a page) in another, more cross-browser compatible
way, it could be useful in the future.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Include_one_file_in_another

Ryan Stewart · Feb 12, 2004

Toby A Inkster said:
Server side includes with scrolling <div> elements:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/scratch/twopages-source

and the results:

http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/scratch/twopages

But could you have something like the following (fixed width font
needed) :

|-------------------------------------------|
| |
| some content |
| |
| |------------------------------| |
| | | |
| more | | |
| content | | |
| | the DIV | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |------------------------------| |
| |
|-------------------------------------------|

Some links in the other content would load a new page into the div,
preferably without refreshing the entire page. This is a JSP project,
btw, and I'm quite familiar with includes and such. Is this at all
possible or am I dreaming?

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