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Id: 12289
Status: resolved
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Queue: CGI

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Requestors: kelson [...] speed.net
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Subject: Tabindex starts at 0 instead of 1 if start_html is not used
Using CGI.pm 3.0.7 on Linux (Red Hat 9, kernel 2.4.29) with Perl 5.8.0 If CGI.pm methods are used to generate form fields, but not the entire HTML document -- specifically, if start_html is not used -- tabindex numbering starts at 0 instead of 1. Since a tabindex of 0 is equivalent to not having a tabindex property at all, this can result in an unexpected tab order. (With the tabindex=0 field selected, tabbing will jump to the next tab *without* a tabindex instead of jumping to tabindex=1.) Noticed on OpenWebmail, which uses CGI.pm to fill in fields in pre-defined templates. Test case: #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI qw(:standard); print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; # Swap the next two lines and look at the tabindexes generated. #print start_html(-title=>'Tabindex Test'); print "<html><head><title>Tabindex Test</title></head><body>"; print startform(-action=>"doesntmatter.pl"); print p ('Login', textfield(-name=>'loginname', -size=>10) ); print p ('Password', password_field(-name=>'password', -size=>10) ); print submit(-value=>'Submit this' ); print end_form(); print qq~<p><a href="/">No tabindex</a> - <a href="/">here either</a></p>~; print end_html();
The fix for thisbug will appear in version 3.08.