Comments on: Proper Keyboard Navigation for Radio and Checkbox Fields in Safari and Firefox https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/ Making forms easy + fast + fun. Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Nate https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1307 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:44:38 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1307 I love your tutorials. Worth a read every time.
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]]> By: Scott Dunham https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1306 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:31:46 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1306 “If you’re on a radio or checkbox choice, just hit spacebar to select or unselect that active option.”

Is it just me, or does hitting space on a selected radio button choice not deselect it? This has always been something that has bugged me about web forms in general… there never seems to be a way to deselect radio button choices, other than selecting a different choice (which is only an option if there are multiple choices to make).

]]> By: Allan https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1305 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:14:00 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1305 @Paul
No the reason I don’t see the problem is that I’m not on a Mac, seems to be a Mac only problem.

]]> By: Jeff Wolski https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1304 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:48:03 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1304 Yes, whenever I setup a new Mac, the first thing I do is change the system preferences to allow me to tab through radio and checkboxes.

]]> By: Paul https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1303 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:27:12 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1303 @Allan my guess is that you already told your OS to override the default behavior. On a Mac you do that in System Preferences / Keyboard / Keyboard Shortcuts.

]]> By: Chris Coyier https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1302 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:03:27 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1302 @Allan: Here’s a quick example outside of wufoo land: http://jsbin.com/ihoqo3

Safari 5.0.2 Mac and Firefox 3.6.12 Mac both have the problem. I also tested Safari 5 on Windows Vista, and it will tab to the *first* radio button in the radio button group but not each individual one.

Weird quirks all around that is now standarized on all wufoo forms!

@Jay: Super neat tip on Control-F7! That’ll be handy to remember when filling out non-wufoo forms.

]]> By: Jason O'Brien https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1301 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:01:58 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1301 It’s true, it’s a Mac OS phenomenon, not necessarily related to a particular browser. I’ve always thought it weird that OSX does this, but glad to see you guys have created a workaround.

]]> By: Jay https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1300 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:44:19 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1300 Skipping radio buttons and Checkboxes is an apple only problem. This is a bad design principle forced by Apple. However you can disable it by simply pressing ( ^F7 ) combination. It’s listed as a keyboard shortcut in preferences.

]]> By: Allan https://www.wufoo.com/blog/proper-keyboard-navigation-for-radio-and-checkbox-fields-in-safari-and-firefox/#comment-1299 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:15:42 +0000 http://wufoo.com/?p=4536#comment-1299 I’m sorry, but I don’t see any other of the survey solutions out there having problems with tabbing through radio or checkboxes in safari or firefox. Looks like you just fixed a wufoo bug.

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