Tab Order in aspx

[RichS]

There was an add-in for VB6 that allowed you to see tab orders for all controls on a form and rearrange them. Does .Net have anything similar for asp? Under the Customize Tool Bar option there is a "Tab Order" button but i can't seem to get it to work.

Thanks

 

[jfrost10]

Hey Rich,

Do you mean that you want the users to change the tab order to whatever they want, or on the developmental side you just want to set the tab order?

Old school way that I know of is to just set the tab order property in VS.NET to whatever it is you want the tab order to be.

Jack

 

[RichS]

Now there's a thought. But I am talking about at development time. Rather than clicking on each control on the form and setting the tab order in each one, have all the controls in a list box and move them around by clicking and dragging.
The first way is time consuming and it's easy to loose track of which control is in which order position, especially if there are several controls on a form. There is an addin in VB6 that does this (in the samples directory).

 

[jfrost10]

Hmmm...well, actually setting something like that up wouldn't be hard at all, except for one problem that may have a solution, but I don't know it:

I've been trying to cycle through a page objects control collection to get a list of controls on an aspx page myself. The problem is that the page.controls collection only seems to recognize the html controls. Further to that, the only control that actually gets returned to me is the <form> tag.

So the idea of moving the items in a listbox is totally doable, its just getting the control collection that may be difficult.

Jack

 

[RichS]

Jack,
Thanks for the response. I going to try writing it. If I come up with something useful I will share it in this forum.

Rich