# tabIndex help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tabindex-help/196578
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 9, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tabindex-help/196578 "2006-08-09T15:13:19Z")
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### Author: ![paul\_ferrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@paul\_ferrie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paul_ferrie)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tabindex-help/196578/1 "2006-08-09T15:13:19Z")

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Hi guys.  
i hope someone can help me with this before i waste 2 hrs figurering that it cant be done.  
I have 2 buttons and 1 mc on my stage  
in side my mc i have a 3 textfields and 2 buttons  
all are given relevent instance names.  
My question is: Is it possible to tab through the 2 buttons in the root then from there tab into the mc and through the fields that are in there?  
i am getting nowhere fast.  
i can set it to run through the mc without any problems but my client has requested that the tabbing should start from the 2 buttons on the root then into the mc then coming back out again to go full circle.  
Can this be done??? after spending the past 30 mins tinkering about i cant seem to get it to work.  
This code is on the root timeline

```auto

//buttons on root
helpMe.tabIndex = 0;
rBut.tabIndex = 1;
//Buttons in mc
form1.tx1.tabIndex = 2;
form1.tx2.tabIndex = 3;
form1.tx3.tabIndex = 4;
form1.bBut.tabIndex = 5;
form1.nBut.tabIndex = 6;

```

Thanks for any help  
Paul