User Guide

MovieClip 929

tabChildren (MovieClip.tabChildren property)

public tabChildren : Boolean

Determines whether the children of a movie clip are included in the automatic tab ordering. If

the

tabChildren property 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. The default value is

undefined.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6

Example

A list box user interface widget that is built as a movie clip contains several items. The user

can click each item to select it, so each item is implemented as 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, you set the

tabChildren property of the list box 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 child 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 to include the child movie clip instances of

menu_mc in the automatic tab ordering:

menu_mc.tabChildren = true;