# Questions on new tabIndex feature in 8.1.39

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/questions-on-new-tabindex-feature-in-8-1-39/92622>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [July 1, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/questions-on-new-tabindex-feature-in-8-1-39/92622 "2024-07-01T12:58:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![hw79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@hw79](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hw79)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/questions-on-new-tabindex-feature-in-8-1-39/92622/1 "2024-07-01T12:58:06Z")

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I was excited to use this feature and upgraded our dev gateway to play around with it. However, it seems like either it's not functioning how I expected it to, or I'm not doing something correctly.

I have the six components in the clip below (`sample ID`, `reading 1-4` and `add sample`)

![2024-07-01_07-52-03](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/9/99fa8806575f6bf4d52b191425424e8f298d3a7f.gif)

The `tabIndex` is set to `[1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6]`and you can see the tabbing follows the order correctly but the component itself gets the focus and not the field.

What am I missing?

Thanks!