Default tab indexing is NOT working with radio buttons, working fine with any other HTML component e.g. checkbox, textbox etc.
Below basic code not working for radio button tab index but working fine with checkbox.
<div class="box">
<input type="radio" name="rdgroup">H
<input type="radio" name="rdgroup">E
<input type="radio" name="rdgroup">L
</div>
<div class="box">
<input type="checkbox" name="ckgroup">W
<input type="checkbox" name="ckgroup">O
<input type="checkbox" name="ckgroup">R
</div>
https://jsfiddle.net/wtyg7cLz/
Thank you :)
Essentially a radio button is a group that functions as a single element since it retains only a single value. Tabbing to a radio group will bring you to the first item and then using the arrow keys you navigate within the group....
When you assign same name to the ratio buttons, it treats you like a one control. However when you don't select anyone you can have a focus on first one and then use arrow button to select the one you want to.
Focus can move to a radio group via: The Tab key An Access Key or
mnemonic targeting the label Activation of the label (through
Assistive Technology mechanism)
The Tab key moves focus between radio button groups and other widgets.
When focus is on the group and when no radio button is selected: Tab
key press moves focus to the first radio button in the group, but does
not select the radio button. Shift+Tab key press moves focus to the
last radio button in the group, but does not select the radio button.
Source: https://www.w3.org/wiki/RadioButton
As #Just Code said:
When you assign same name to the ratio buttons, it treats you like a one control. However when you don't select anyone you can have a focus on first one and then use arrow button to select the one you want to.
For radio buttons as a group if they have the same name then changing focus will work or navigate with arrow keys like (right, left, up, down).that is the default behavior of radio buttons, it is better to leave it as default. If you prefer tab control then i guess you have to implement it with javascript, because if you give them different name user can select all different radio buttons
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<div class="box">
<input type="radio" name="rdgroup" tabindex="1">H
<input type="radio" name="rdgroup" tabindex="2">E
<input type="radio" name="rdgroup" tabindex="3">L
</div>
<div class="box">
<input type="checkbox" name="ckgroup">W
<input type="checkbox" name="ckgroup">O
<input type="checkbox" name="ckgroup">R
</div>
you could use the tabindex attribute to get a workaround after the first radio button element gets focused the user can then use the arrow keys (default) to select the desired option.
kindly check the below link for more details.
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_tabindex.asp
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I'm trying to be WCAG friendly and have created a group of radio buttons, which, when they receive on-change, trigger action. But when I tried to navigate it by shift+arrow, I discovered that it doesn't just focus them, but right away checks them on? Am I missing something here, or is that normal behavior?
Edit:
The code looks like this for example:
<input type="radio" name="month" value="jan">January</input>
<input type="radio" name="month" value="feb">February</input>
<input type="radio" name="month" value="mar">March</input>
You didn't post any code so I'll assume you're using
<input type="radio">
and that you have several of them all with the same name attribute and that each radio button has a properly associated label with them. (Lots of assumptions but we can only guess if you don't post any code.)
When no radio buttons are initially selected, different browsers treat navigation to them differently.
On Firefox, I can tab to each radio button in the group.
On Chrome, I can only tab to one radio button in the group.
The tab does not select the radio button. It only moves the focus there.
Once my focus is on a radio button, then the arrow keys perform two behaviors:
It moves the focus to the next (or previous) radio button in the group and
It selects the radio button.
It sounds like you're asking about #2 behaivor. If so, then what you are seeing is normal behavior.
I have a sequence of radio buttons on a web page. On page-load, the first radio button in the sequence is selected by default.
In addition, there is a <div> associated with each radio button. (The corresponding <div>'s class is the same as the corresponding radio button's value.)
Even though the first radio button is checked by default, the jQuery (source) does not trigger until the already-checked radio button is manually clicked after page-load. I learned that I can solve this by manually triggering the click myself on page-load via jQuery.
I tried doing so with $("input:radio:first").prop("checked", true).trigger("click"); (source), which I thought would click the first radio button in the sequence as desired, but to no success. (By the way, is this code clicking the first radio button on the page, or is it clicking the first checked radio button on the page? I'd prefer the code to trigger("click") the first checked radio button on the page.)
I also already hide all <div>s in the CSS, as suggested here.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('input[type="radio"]').click(function() {
var inputValue = $(this).attr("value");
var targetBox = $("." + inputValue);
$(".radio_div").not(targetBox).hide();
$(targetBox).show();
});
});
$("input:radio:first").prop("checked", true).trigger("click");
.radio_div {
display: none;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
<label>
<input type="radio"
value="Bacon" checked="checked">Part 1</label>
<label>
<input type="radio"
value="is">Part 2</label>
<label>
<input type="radio"
value="Good">Part 3</label>
</div>
<div class="Bacon radio_div">Cured sugary meat</div>
<div class="is radio_div">be</div>
<div class="Good radio_div">bangin</div>
JSFiddle
How can I make jQuery click the default-checked radio button (so that its respective <div> appears) on page-load?
In addition, in my actual environment (which uses a semi-customizable web builder, so it's difficult to reproduce all the code involved), the default-checked radio button must always be clicked twice in order to activate its corresponding <div> with the jQuery. However, I cannot replicate this behavior in JSFiddle. If anyone has any insight on what might be causing this (and how to troubleshoot/resolve), I'd be happy to hear. (Perhaps jQuery could simulate a second click whenever a radio button click is detected?)
EDIT: The issue with my production environment (in the gif) was that the value of the first radio button was changing to whatever radio button was previously selected. Super ridiculous.
Because you're using 2 click functions.
I encountered a problem, where one radio button group is dependant on other state, which caused a disabled radio button to be selected. This is not a problem when selecting another value in the radio button group with the mouse for example, but it seems it is impossible to tab to the radio button group now. I realise that I maybe should not let this happen, but I think it is strange that you can build radio button group that you cannot change by keyboard alone. Here is a simple example:
<input type="radio" disabled checked name="test" value="1">
<input type="radio" name="test" value="2">
<input type="radio" name="test" value="3">
<input type="radio" name="test" value="4">
Is there something I can do to "fix" this behaviour, or does anyone have a good way to handle these edge cases, or how to code if differently all together to avoid this issue?
This is clearly a browser issue, although i'm not sure what would be the expected bahaviour.
The problem is that when you have a radio group, the keyboard goes to the selected element. If this element is disabled, then the focus will jump the whole radio group even if the other one are not disabled.
One "fix" would be to avoid the problem by dissociating the radio buttons in two groups and relying on some javascript code to let them appear as a whole group. You can also reimplement the whole radio button feature by using aria role="radio" on 4 div elements.
It's also possible to ask and wait for the bug to be fixed.
I have two inputs of type radio. For each input there's a correspoding label with a single button inside.
I was expecting that clicking the button would have the same effect as clicking the label: that the corresponding input would be checked.
However, this does not happen. As shown by the following snippet, hovering and pressing the buttons does trigger the corresponding style changes in the radio buttons, but the click action does not select the input, even though the simple labels work as expected.
I've checked that buttons are legal children of labels. Labels allow Phrasing Content, and buttons are Phrasing Content, so everything should be okay there.
I have also tried to add an event listener to both buttons' click events, and within them calling event.preventDefault(), just to make sure that the default behaviour of the button was not preventing the event from bubbling up to the label, but to no avail, the label is receiving the event.
Since this seems to be consistent across browsers (Tested on Firefox 41a and Opera 31b / Chrome 44):
What's happening here that I'm missing?
How can I implement this without trickery (such as styling the label as if it were a button)?
<div>
<input type="radio" name="A" id="one" />
<label for="one">One</label>
<label for="one">
<button type="button">One</button>
</label>
<input type="radio" name="A" id="two" />
<label for="two">Two</label>
<label for="two">
<button type="button">Two</button>
</label>
</div>
A label can only be associated with one form control at a time. This is evidenced by the fact that the for attribute points to an element with a matching ID attribute.
You have a button that is a descendant of your label; the expected interpretation of this is that the label serves as a label for the button. However, you're trying to associate the radio button, not the button element, with the label. The real problem here is that there is a conflict between the form controls and the label; it's unable to figure out which control it's supposed to be associated to.
I'm guessing that the fact the radio button isn't working correctly is a side effect of this. Perhaps it's down to some activation behavior in both the radio button and the button element.
I've checked that buttons are legal children of labels. Labels allow Phrasing Content, and buttons are Phrasing Content, so everything should be okay there.
The validator does nevertheless produce the following error with your markup:
Error: Any button descendant of a label element with a for attribute must have an ID value that matches that for attribute.
This is because a label element with a for attribute needs to have a form control with that ID value for the for attribute to point to, even if that control is a descendant of the label itself. But you can't assign the same ID to more than one element. The result is the aforementioned conflict.
Without knowing what you're trying to accomplish here, the best advice I can give if you just want the label to have the appearance of a button is to just style it as such.
<div>
<input type="radio" name="A" id="one" />
<label for="one">One</label>
<label for="one">
<span style="color: red;">One</span>
</label>
<input type="radio" name="A" id="two" />
<label for="two">Two</label>
<label for="two">
<span style="color: blue;">Two</span>
</label>
</div>
I have an input type of radio, when using Angular to wire up the backend. However, it is currently allowing multiple selections, which is completely odd since radio is by default single selection.
<div ng-repeat="s in survey">
<input type="radio" data-ng-model="s.isSelected">{{s.id}}
</div>
Has anyone run into this, or notice something I am missing?
Assign a name attribute with the same value to all radiobuttons in the same group.
ex:
<input type="radio" name="group1" data-ng-model="s.isSelected">{{s.id}}