• is it possible to focus
• the whole component for readonly and disabled components
• the textfield for all enabled components

• the problem occurs if calendar is rendered as popup
• to fix this problem you have to add tabindex to the first PassThruAttributeRenderer

PassThruAttributeRenderer.renderAttributes(facesContext, uiComponent, new String[]

);

• i have this quickfix attached

I implemented the quickfix attached in this JIRA, and it addresses the problem of focusing to the 'group' or div. However, the tabbing order does not work correctly. I have the tab index is set to: date from text, date to text, select 1, select 2, text 1, text 2, search btn, clear btn in the attached screenshot above. When testing it, the tab order is date from text, date from image (which is ok), date to image, internet address bar, date to text, select 1, select 2, text 1, text 2, search btn, clear btn. When the focus is moved to the calendar image, it seems that the tabindex is 'spoiled' as suggested here ==> http://jira.icefaces.org/browse/ICE-1892

Both selectInputDate tags are renderAsPopup="true" and partialSubmit="false" The issue is reproducible in MSIE 6.0 and FireFox

After more research, the issue seems to be with the tabindex of the image. I added this code to the current fix to set the image to the tabindex of the textbox +1

(on line 328)

if(selectInputDate.getTabindex() != null && selectInputDate.getTabindex().trim().length() > 0)

for a more permanent solution, please add an attribute for the tabindex of the image.

• Thanks for your solution.
• I'm not sure if this is the best solution because all elements behind this selectInputDate element have to set tabindex to tabindex + 1
• I'm not sure if a html tabindex attribute has to be unique in the whole html page or is it possible to have "sub container" in html where the tabindex order starts with 0 again.
• This case is currently assigned to an icefaces developer.

Changes made so the tabindex will be rendered on the input text field in popup mode, and the close button will be rendered with the incremented tabindex.

Modified: D:\work\development\head\svn\ossrepo\icefaces\trunk\icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\selectinputdate\SelectInputDateRenderer.java
Sending content: D:\work\development\head\svn\ossrepo\icefaces\trunk\icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\selectinputdate\SelectInputDateRenderer.java
Completed: At revision: 18318

QA successfully tested it using Tomcat 6 + ICEfaces-1.8.0-RC1 build.5 for calendar component of all three versions of component-showcase

Browsers tested: FF2, IE6

QA successfully tested it on ICEfaces-1.8.1 build.1 + Glassfish v2.1 using component-showcase facelets-enh. The date input field and the calendar close/popup button gain focus separately.

Browsers tested: FF3, IE8