Setting a tab order for forms (AS3)

Hi all,
When I press the Tab key to jump to the next text box on my
form, it jumps to the 4th text box and then to the 7th and so on.
There is no order what so ever.
Does anyone know I can set this order?

You can define the tab order by setting the tabIndex property
on the element.

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