# Stop button selectability by tabbing

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-button-selectability-by-tabbing/211407>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 31, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-button-selectability-by-tabbing/211407 "2006-12-31T18:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![RonH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@RonH](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RonH)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-button-selectability-by-tabbing/211407/1 "2006-12-31T18:07:20Z")

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I hate have posted two threads in 2 days, but I need to know how to prevent this:  
In flash, if you have a textField selected, then you hit tab, it will select a button near/below it. How can I stop this?

When the textField has focus, and you hit the tab button, it adds in a tab to the textField, which is what I want, but it also then puts a yellow border around a button/movieClip near it. I just want to know how to stop that from happening.