TabStop not working

Question

We have a form and text fields. All control tabindex are set correctly and TabStop = true . When some text fields are focused, and when I click the tab, the focus is not set in the next text field.

Note. The controls are in the panel and TabStop = true

Answer 1

Set TabStop for the panel to false

Make sure the tab indices look like this:

Remember that you have a good tool for setting Tab indices in Visual Studio:

Answer 2

My decision. Containers must have the correct tab numbers, even if they do not stop. Finally, work!

Answer 3

Have you set the order of the tabs correctly? Select the form in the designer view and select View > Tab Order to set the correct order.

Answer 4

Set TabStop for individual controls. Remove it from the panel.

Answer 5

Perhaps a TextBox from which you cannot insert a tab is a multi-line TextBox with AcceptsTab set to true? This will cause the TextBox to be used by the tab itself.

Answer 6

I know this is an old post, but I had a similar problem, and I decided to share my solution.

Make sure you install TabIndex before adding a control to it. Control Control

I noticed that for the controls that were skipped, I added them to the parent element before setting up TabIndex. As soon as I installed TabIndex and then added them to the collection, they behaved as expected.

It should be noted that Visual Studio showed the order of the tabs I wanted, but at runtime it did not behave like that.

Answer 7

The old post and nothing helped here. I tried everything, including to force it. Select () e.Focus () on the controls. For some reason, the taborn behaved in a funny manner, even turning off / setting visible = false on one control of the other orders was wrong, as if the tab index worked in the opposite order.

The only thing was the help documentation, you can open this field using Ctrl + W, U or the menu on VS.

BROWSE → Other Windows → Document Structure

It does not show your controls well in the tree. Just drag the controls in the correct order, this will affect the order of the tabs.

A word of warning: I dealt with this a bit, because dragging (in the "Document Structure" field) of some controls inside the panel made them move to the upper upper corner of the panel (in the designer). Just drag them back to the position in the constructor.

For some reason, the order they control is displayed in the Outline Dcouemnt block, which affects tab behavior in unpleasant ways.