Avoid body focus during tabbing

After opening Firefox and placing cursor in address bar, try pressing tab button. Now focus will set on each element like Address bar, Search window, body of the opened webpage. This is where im facing the problem. I don't want firefox to set focus on the body element while pressing tab i.e whole body gets focused. And also that does not make any sense , why the focus is setting to body of the page because we cant do any stuff by setting focus to the body of the element. I tried with other browsers , which works perfectly fine. But i like to stick to Firefox, the browser which i love the most. Being a developer i tried with lots of stuffs, but couldn't make out solution for it.Can u please provide the solution for it ? or the script which will avoid the focus of body element ?

If you keep pressing the Tab key then the other focusable elements on the web page get focus, so the cycle doesn't end with focusing the body element.

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During tab traversal (when the user's intention is just to switch between tabs), the focus is transferred to a component outside of the tabs (if there is a component after/below the JTabbedPane component), if using Java 6. For example, if using the SSCCE below...
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import java.awt.event.FocusAdapter;
import java.awt.event.FocusEvent;
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import javax.swing.JFrame;
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import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
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... Then we can replicate this behavior by following these steps:
1) Run the program in Java 6; and then
2) Click on a child component in any of the tabs; and then
3) Click on any other tab (or use the mnemonic keys 'ALT + 1' to 'ALT + 4').
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This does not occur in Java 7, so I'm assuming it is a bug that is fixed. And I know that Oracle suggests that we should use Java 7 nowadays.
The problem is: We need to stick to Java 6 for a certain application. So I'm looking for a way to fix this issue for all our JTabbedPane components while using Java 6.
So, is there a way to prevent JTabbedPanes from passing the focus to components outside of the tabs during tab traversal (e.g. when users are just switching between tabs), in Java 6?
Note: I've read the release notes between Java 6u45 to Java 7u15, but I was unable to find any changes related to the JTabbedPane component. So any pointers on this would be deeply appreciated.
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James

Hi Kleopatra,
Thanks for the reply.
Please allow me to clarify first: Actually the problem is not that the child components (inside tabs) get focused before the selected tab. The problem is: the component outside of the tabs gets focused before the selected tab. For example, the JButton in the SSCCE posted above gets focused when users switch between tabs, despite the fact that the JButton is not a child component of the JTabbedPane.
It is important for me to prevent this behavior because it causes a usability issue for forms with 'auto-scrolling' features.
What I mean by 'auto-scrolling' here is: a feature where the form automatically scrolls down to show the current focused component (if the component is not already visible). This is a usability improvement for long forms with scroll bars (which saves the users' effort of manually scrolling down just to see the focused component).
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... then you'll notice the following usability issue:
1) JRE 1.6 causes the focus to transfer to the JButton (which is outside of the tabs entirely) first; then
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3) JRE 1.6 transfers the focus to the tab contents; then
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5) Users are forced to manually scroll up to see the tab headers whenever they are just switching between tabs.
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Best Regards,
James

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Using JDEV 11.1.1.4 I have a problem with tabbing from one textbox to another textbox in IE. Both text boxes have autoSubmit=true and to reproduce the problem it's like so:
I type a value or edit the existing one into text box 1 and press Tab. The submit is done and focus is given to the second text box but only momentarily before it loses focus. The focus then is given to the window it would appear, because if I press Tab again it begins from the top of the page. This is only happening in IE (v8 is all I have tried so far). This ONLY happens when the value of the second box is null. If it has a value all works fine.
I tried implementing various solutions including using the ExtendedRenderKitService to write javascript to the client from the bean to set focus on the text box after the partial render. The javascript is called and focus is set but then something else calls blur on it afterwards. I have verified this by putting a blur event listener on it and it gets called after I set focus on it from my own javascript!
Has anyone experienced something similar? Just to note: It only happens in IE, and it only happens when the second text box is empty.
Thanks,
Ross

Hey John,
In reply to your message
1). Tried on 11.1.1.6 to see if the issue is still there?Not really an option to try and upgrade and test if it works there.
2). Made a simple test case removing as many variables as possible (e.g. do a simple screen with no DB interaction and only two fields) to see if it reproduces or it's something with your screen?Tried this an it works fine which means it is something unique to my code.
3). Filed an SR at https://support.oracle.com with your test case
As above it looks like it's not a problem with ADF so I will keep looking at it.

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When I move the focus into a TextArea with a TAB. The first pressed key is not displayed. Is this a bug..? if yes are there any workarounds..? I am using JDK1.4.1.
I am pasting my sample program.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Test extends Frame implements KeyListener {
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public void keyPressed(KeyEvent kE) {
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public void keyReleased(KeyEvent kE) {
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public void keyTyped(KeyEvent kE) {
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Quick bit of cut and paste here from an app that I've just modified + thrfr this is tested;- class EventKeyHandler implements KeyListener, ClipboardOwner{
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I have a JTable and when the user goes to enter some text in a field I would like the value entered to persist to the underlying object as soon as the text is changed. This is without the user tabbing out of the JTable.
Currently when a value is changed and the user hits a save button the value is not saved as the focus is still in the table, it all works fine as soon as the user enters the new value and tabs out of the table and then selects save,
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I am using oracle forms 10g and db 10g.
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When i enter a data in page 1 ie Expense and move to next page page2 "AMOUNT_DETAILS", and enters data in page3 "SUPPLIER" and when i come back to page1 "EXPENSE" and also Page2 "AMOUNT" the data get cleared in Tab pages. There is no data again i need to enter the data manually.
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Thanks once again for your quick response.
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I have a swing standalone app where general navigation is managed with something like this:
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The problem is that when central app panel shows the JTabbedPane, the only way to focus in a component is by mouse click, after that i can use tab key to switch between components, including tabs from pane.
I cant find a way to force focus so mouse click is not necesary.
The component parameter in previous code has been a container in any part of app code I've seen it, so far, somewhere in each of this containers is a back button to mantain consistent the navigation. But I need to keep anytime the tab key navigation.
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