Tabbing between text entry boxes

Aug 03, 2012

Hello,

Gold medal to anyone who can give me an idea how I can make it possible to tab between different text entry boxes.

I've managed to get it to advance to next slide by hitting the enter key once the final box (there are only 3!) has been completed but tabbing between the boxes is escaping me - I was hoping to change the state of the text entry box to normal once the tab key had been pressed but text entry boxes don't have states...!

If it's not possible then I would very much like it to be : )

Cheers,
Greg

35 Replies

over 6 years ago07/26/17 at 7:05 pm (UTC)

Hi Joy

you can set the tab order - see this tutorial for SL2 - not sure if that solves your problem.

Joy Scott

over 6 years ago07/26/17 at 7:10 pm (UTC)

Hi Wendy,

Thank you for replying. I forgot to mention in my original post that I changed the tab order as well but it didn't help.

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

over 6 years ago07/27/17 at 4:27 pm (UTC)

Hi Joy,

Did you create these rectangles yourself? Storyline will automatically show a yellow rectangle around slide objects based on the tab order set-up.

Would you mind sharing your file so I can have a look under the hood?

over 6 years ago07/27/17 at 7:02 pm (UTC)

Hi Alyssa. I did create the rectangles myself. Is there a way to send the file to you directly?

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

over 6 years ago07/27/17 at 9:51 pm (UTC)

Sure! You can send the file over to our team by clicking here. Be sure to let us know the case number so we can follow along. :)

over 6 years ago07/28/17 at 4:26 pm (UTC)

Hi Alyssa,

I sent the file to your team. Thank you so much!

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 6 years ago07/28/17 at 4:35 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the update Joy. You should be hearing from one of our support engineers soon.

Lyndsay Holder

6 years ago02/21/18 at 10:13 pm (UTC)

I make sure everything else on the slide is unchecked from "Object is visible to accessibility tools." That way, the only tabbing options are between my text entry boxes. It's sort of the reverse of Phil's work around.

over 3 years ago09/30/20 at 10:22 pm (UTC)

@Phil Mayor,

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your tip on right-clicking on the object, then selecting size and position, then alt text, and uncheck the accessible box resolved my issue.

So thankful for this thread!