jquery ui tabs from xml in dialog - focus issue (not active tabs will not take focus from “tab”)

Question

Ok,

posting code will be tricky, but I will try to update tomorrow with an example.

My dialog is dynamic and loaded with dynamic content, including dynamic jquery ui tabs. When I tab through the dialog, the focus stops at the first tab and does not proceed to the next tab. I have tried to set the focus to the next li a I have tried to blur the active tab on keycode.tab , and have added differing tabindex's to the tabs - among other things.

I did pull the tabs out of the dialog, and the tabs focus correctly as I tab through using the keyboard. I'm assuming it's some type of issue with the dialog and then tabs being loaded through json.

using jQuery 1.4.2

using jQuery UI 1.8.14

Answer 1

See this thread: how to set tab focus on li page load using jquery

Could it be that you're trying to set focus to a DOM element that can't receive focus?