Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / July 2003

there is actually a very "cute" way to do this in internet explorer using
documment.all;  IE4+
not tested but should work
<script>
function InArray(Arr, Str)
{
 for(var i=0;i<Arr.length;i++) {
  if(Arr[i] == Str) return true;
 }
 return false;
}
var AllTagNameElements = new Array("input", "select", "button"); // stop at
tags with the following tagName values
// add or subtract values from the above array as necessary
window.onload = function()
{
   for(var i=0;i<document.all.length;i++)
   {
       if(InArray(AllTagNameElements,
document.all[i].tagName))document.all[i].onkeydown = doNav;
   }
}
function doNav()
{
   // this func only goes forward, to go backkward change the if condition
to if(i <= 0) return; and chage ++i to --i
   // it goes without saying that you need to check the event.keyCode to
figure out which key was pressed so as
   // to figure out which way to go
   var i = event.srcElement.sourceIndex;
   while(!InArray(AllTagNameElements, document.all[++i].tagName)){if(i >=
document.all.length) return;}
   document.all[i].focus();
}
</script>

hope your script doesn't have to be compatible with NS

etan