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Tip: Keeping the TAB key press in Adobe Captivate content in a browser

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Tab Key

A couple of days ago I received this comment:

I'd like to see some workarounds for using the tab key inside a captivate project running on the web. Many times the browser steals back the Tab keyPress and it becomes non functional in the applications.

Our QA manager Suresh has provided a simple workaround:

There is a behavior called Seamless tabbing, which allows tabbing to extend beyond the movie and start with the browser address bar. To disable, follow these steps:

  1. Open the HTML file Adobe Captivate generates in a note pad or HTML editor
  2. Between the writeDocument <object> </object> tags, add the following '<param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="false">'+
  3. Save the HTML file

Your tabbing will now stay within the movie. I tested this for both IE and FF and it works.

Thanks Suresh!

AddThis Social Bookmark Button Posted by Silke Fleischer on February 20, 2008 8:43 AM |

Comments

Wonder if I am missing something. I have seen this work around before and I tried it and it has never worked for me. I am working in dreamweaver and changing the .htm file that captivate generates. Am I missing something?

SF: Just updated the entry - you'll need to include the param info in the first section writeDocument like the other parameters: ''+

Posted by: Zach | February 26, 2008 5:52 AM

Silke,

Thanks for the great blog! I know this is pretty simple, but can you publish this in the developer center? That way I won't lose it as you publish more content.

Thanks,

Jason Eden
VMware, Inc.

SF: We link from the dev center to this blog :)

Posted by: Jason Eden | March 2, 2008 12:28 PM

Thanks for above workaround! It helped a lot. I wonder, if something like this is possible to negate function keys to be passed to IE, too?
I already searched the dev center for help, but couldn´t find any hint.

Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Tina

Posted by: Christina Wilhelm | April 1, 2008 5:02 AM

Hi,
I have the same problem that Tina.
Could you please help us with that issue?? How to negate the function keys to be passed to IE.
Thanks
Carlos

Posted by: Carlos | August 5, 2008 8:14 AM

Hi
I'll add my plea for a solution to bypass IE for function keys during a captivate sim....

Sue

Posted by: Sue Parker | August 20, 2008 12:32 PM

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