Tabbed based navigation

[eclipsegrafx]

In the industry i work in if you browse through a page using the cursor it is called cursor based navigation if you use only the up and down left and rite and enter keys to navigate a website this is called a tabbed based navigation. i know it is possible to do it in flash but i dont want to re do the whole site in flash (yet)

is there a way to make the arrow keys be wat controls wht key is in focus? please help. thank you

[Kravvitz]

Unless a form field is active, the arrow keys control scrolling and the tab key is used to tab through all of the elements that can recieve control focus.

[Jon Hanlon]

is there a way to make the arrow keys be wat controls wht key is in focus?


Huh?

If you can't be bothered to take the time and care to type your question legibly you can't expect others to take the time to answer your gibberish.

[eclipsegrafx]

ok i want the arrow keys on the keyboard to control what link is in focus on the screen. Meaning i have a column of 5 buttons and i press down i want the focus to go from button 1 to button 2 and if i press down again it goes to button 3.

Along with this is there a way to set up the page so the first button on the screen is what is in focus. on certain browsres that i have worked with these are possible but i am not sure if IE has these settings avaiable. if you are unclear on what i mean just pm me and ill respond with whtever your question is.

[eclipsegrafx]

So if i put it in a form field i should be able to select through buttons?

is there a code to hide the cursor?

[Jon Hanlon]

The arrow keys control scrolling.

You can jump to the next control using the tab key (or shift-tab) to go backwards. If you want to alter the tabbing order use the tabindex (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/tabindex.asp) property.

You cannot hide the mouse pointer, nor disable the mouse.

[eclipsegrafx]

i dont want to use tab or shift+tab i need to be able to use just the arrow keys for demonstration purposes.

[Kravvitz]

That's not possible.