TABINDEX on HTML tab of form elements

One can learn a lot by viewing the html source generated by Domino. While I've developed a number of Domino apps, I've never needed to worry about the tab order of fields and buttons on a web form -- until now. I'd been asked to take a VB app and develop something similar that would run in a web browser and that would not involve DLLs and an install routine. I was able to do this with a Domino form and JavaScript, but since there was a very particular layout required, the default left-to-right and top-to bottom tab navigation of buttons and fields was not acceptable. I set the tab order for a few fields and then looked at the html that Domino generated.

DUH! I had never explicitly set the TABINDEX property. It turns out that even though Designer does not offer an up-front way to set the tab order of buttons, we can do this by simply setting the TABINDEX property on the HTML tab of the item properties box for each field and button on the form. I was able to quickly set the tab order to exactly what was required.

Just another simple discovery that makes life easier.