TAB ORDER OF FORM FIELDS HEEEELLLP PLEASE

I have a nice form set up in flash. I can enter text in the
fields, but as I tab from the first field to the next, I end up on
text in another area of the page before tabbing again to land on
another field, then when I tab again, I get the next field, tab
again and leave the form to find text elsewhere, then tab again to
come back to the form. The order of fields I would like to have is
name, company, email, phone, message. What I'm getting is name, off
the form, off the form, company, email, message, phone. Please tell
me what I'm not doing so the tabs go from one field seamlessly to
the next. THANK YOU.

"noosachic" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have a nice form set up in flash. I can enter text in
the fields, but as I
> tab from the first field to the next, I end up on text
in another area of the
> page before tabbing again to land on another field, then
when I tab again, I
> get the next field, tab again and leave the form to find
text elsewhere, then
> tab again to come back to the form. The order of fields
I would like to have is
> name, company, email, phone, message. What I'm getting
is name, off the form,
> off the form, company, email, message, phone. Please
tell me what I'm not doing
> so the tabs go from one field seamlessly to the next.
THANK YOU.
>
Here is a link to Google Groups for Flash searching for "tab
index". Many pages of info on tab indexing.
http://tinyurl.com/ygkduk
Here is a bit of code used for a feedback submit form that
sets the tab order for all the text boxes and a submit button..
form.emailBox.tabIndex = 1;
form.nameBox.tabIndex = 2
form.addressBox.tabIndex = 3;
form.cityBox.tabIndex = 4
form.stateBox.tabIndex = 5;
form.zipBox.tabIndex = 6;
form.phoneBox.tabIndex = 7;
form.messageBox.tabIndex = 8;
submit_btn.tabIndex = 9;
tralfaz

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