Problem is, Netscape 4 doesn't support the tabindex attribute, unless you've tested it-- I researched in Newsgroups and IE-to-Netscape comparison sites and all indicate that only Internet Exploder 4.0 supports the tabindex attribute.

I found one newsgrouper that was fiddling with the 1.2 event model and capturing TAB key events-- he was stumped on what he was trying to do, but apparently you can get an event on the KEYUP event-- at this point, the new object has focus, so you can check if the class of the object is an anchor, then test if the shift key is pressed. If the shift key is pressed, you go back in the current forms array until you find a non-anchor object, then tell it to grab focus. If the shift key isn't pressed you move forward through the forms array until you find a non-anchor element.

If you see if it will work, I'll make it an option on the <TEFORM> and <TEMACRO TERMFORM> tags :)

I may be able to do something along the lines of what you suggest. I already build an array of the input items when the page is loaded so that I can support my auto-cursor-jumping feature, so it may be even simpler for me to do this - all I need is the element number of the field getting focus, and I can locate that offset in my array, and go forward or backward based on the shift-key. However, I need to figure out what level I have to capture the keystrokes - I'm capturing now at the form level, I may have to move up to the window or frameset.

Got some sample JavaScript you'd like to share, at least on getting the keystroke events in a Screensurfer environment?

We would like to plug-in an option on the new <TEFORM> tag to implement "link-skipping" on a generic basis and are always interested in saving time :)