MovieClip.tabChildren

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

my_mc.tabChildren:Boolean

Description

Property; undefined by default. If tabChildren is undefined or true, the children of a movie clip are included in automatic tab ordering. If the value of tabChildren is false, the children of a movie clip are not included in automatic tab ordering.

Example

A list box UI widget built as a movie clip contains several items. The user can click each item to select it, so each item is a button. However, only the list box itself should be a tab stop. The items inside the list box should be excluded from tab ordering. To do this, the tabChildren property of the list box should be set to false.

The tabChildren property has no effect if the tabIndex property is used; the tabChildren property affects only automatic tab ordering.

The following example disables tabbing for all children movie clips inside a parent movie clip called menu_mc.

menu_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu1_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu2_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu3_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu4_mc.onRelease = function(){};

menu_mc.tabChildren = false;

Change the last line of code to the following, in order to include the children movie clip instances of menu_mc in the automatic tab ordering.

menu_mc.tabChildren = true;

Comments

jjdNick said on Mar 25, 2005 at 9:55 AM :

My tests consistently show that if tabChildren is undefined, then the
children of a movie clip are NOT included in automatic tab ordering.
According to my findings: the tabChildren property must be set to true
and the items (mc's, textareas, buttons) must be given a tabIndex to
included.

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