How to trigger "Tab" keyboard key click from the code

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It depends on your components that need focus
if it’s TextBox and TextArea components you can call self.textbox.focus()

If it’s anything other than a TextBox or TextArea then i’d recommend

AnvilAugment: Hover, Focus, Key Bindings Dependency

Update I’ve updated this dependency - The new dependency and example can be found here: (i’ve left the original post in place in case someone stumbles across this and prefers the first version) https://anvil.works/build#clone:36T6RN2OO6KLBGV7=4LZ35S57ODPL7ORIUJ2AH6KY Changes: you can now use standard anvil event handler function syntax (namely **event_args) keydown, keyup etc supported hover takes 1 function - distinguish between mouseenter and mouseleave from the event_args works with Bl…

the code would look something like:

from AnvilAugment import augment

class Form1(Form1Template):
    def __init__(self, **properties):
        from itertools import cycle
        components = [self.componet1, self.component2, ..., ]
        for component in components:
            augment.add_event(component, 'focus')
        self.components = cycle(components)

    def button_click(self, **event_args):
        next(self.components).trigger('focus')
   

here’s a clone link:
I’ve added a bit more code just to make sure that the next element is always after the currently focused element but the premise is the same

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