Where do tabindex="0" HTML elements end up in the tabbing order?

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HELP picture HELP · Nov 7, 2010 · Viewed 59.4k times · Source

In what order are elements with a tabindex value of 0 focused when the web page is tabbed?

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haltersweb picture haltersweb · Jun 14, 2013

tabindex assignments are handled the following way (for elements that support the tabindex attribute):

  • Positive numbers (1,2,3...32767) are handled in tab order.
  • 0 is handled in source order (the order it appears in the DOM)
  • -1 is ignored during tabbing but is focusable.

This information is taken from : http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-tabindex

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