# Tab Order

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tab-order/101831>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 14, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tab-order/101831 "2004-02-14T18:34:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jaelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@jaelle](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jaelle)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tab-order/101831/1 "2004-02-14T18:34:36Z")

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I’m playing around w/ making a guestbook in Flash.

[www.jlcreationsonline.com/phpstuff/guestbook.html](http://www.jlcreationsonline.com/phpstuff/guestbook.html)

If you put your cursor in Name, and then tab through, it doesn’t exactly go in logical order. I’m wondering if there is an easy way to fix this, or if i have to rearrange all my text boxes into an order so that it does.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tab-order/101831/2 "2004-02-20T09:12:36Z")

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try  
[AS]  
// root timeline  
yourField1.onLoad = function () {  
this.tabIndex = 0;  
}  
yourField2.onLoad = function () {  
this.tabIndex = 1;  
}

// or on the button  
on (load) {  
this.tabIndex = 0;  
}

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