Looking For A Code

[LF from MC]

Hi, I think this the right place, because I am looking for something..

 

I'm looking for a code, it's a shortcut key code for 'Next Page' I and others have looked high and low on the Internet. They have everything under the sun, except that one.

 

They do have them for next tab, or next window, and so on, but not Next Page.

 

It's for a friend that doesn't want to use the mouse to click on the next page, he wants to use the keyboard. Well myself I would just rather use the mouse.

 

Example, in the forums here, there are Topics that have more than one page, and what my friend wants to do, is use the keyboard to go to the next page, and not have to use the mouse, to click on next, or the page number.

 

Anyway, I just thought someone here might have seen one, or know of a code for one. If there isn't any to be had, then my friend will just have to use the mouse

 

Thanks a bunch,

 

Lorraine

[TCH-Bruce]

As far as I know there is no such code. The Next Page button is just an html link to another page usually generated dynamically.

 

You can tab to it and click the Enter key but there is no shortcut to do the same.

[LF from MC]

Thanks Bruce,

 

I tried the Tab and enter key, and it didn't work. Oh well, he'll just have to use the mouse like everyone else

 

Lorraine

[heyguy]

By the time your friend tabs through every link on the page and gets to the "Next" button, he could have just clicked it. Is this an accessibility issue or is it a laziness issue?

[LF from MC]

Well it could be laziness, he doesn't want to use the mouse Hmmmm I don't know why anyone wouldn't not want to use the mouse. I guess he's pretty good on the keyboard, and can remember all the shortcut key codes.

 

Thanks for your reply heyguy.

[carbonize]

You canmake the link the first thing the focus goes to when tab is pressed by using tabindex="1" there is also a way to assing a key to a link so that ALT + thekey would activate the link.

[Samrc]

Many of us that started before the mouse learned keyboard shortcuts and prefer those over the mouse.

Keeping the hands on the keyboard and not having to use the mouse for things is often faster.

 

Watching this thread...if someone comes up with a solution I would like it!

[LF from MC]

there is also a way to assing a key to a link so that ALT + thekey would activate the link.

Thanks carbonize for your reply.

 

The problem is, there's a shortcut key for everything except 'Next Page' not Next Window, but Next Page. If you ever come across it, please let us know.

 

Thanks for your input Samrc. yes, I understand now, that for some people, it is a lot faster to use only the keys, and not have to use the mouse, and I believe that, because at work, when I'm typing something, I have to stop to use the mouse, so it does slow a person down, even for me, and I'm slow at using the keyboard.

 

Lorraine

[carbonize]

My bad I thought we were discussing a page you had made. Opera has it's fast forward feature which may work or use Firefox and turn on Find as you type.