--- title: "Where focus goes when following in page links" url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-focus-goes-when-following-in-page-links-acqpovgzu source_url: https://hidde.blog/where-focus-goes-when-following-in-page-links type: article source: "Hidde de Vries — hidde.blog" published: 2026-05-31T07:49:04.435Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:13:40.053Z tags: ["html", "accessibility"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Where focus goes when following in page links **[Hidde de Vries — hidde.blog](https://daily.dev/sources/hiddedevries)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary When following an in-page anchor link to a non-focusable element (like a plain div), browsers move focus to the body rather than the target element. However, many browsers implement a 'sequential focus navigation starting point' — a spec-defined concept that shifts the TAB navigation origin to the linked element even when focus itself doesn't move there. This means pressing TAB after clicking such a link will advance focus from the linked element's position in the DOM, not from wherever focus visually landed. The feature works in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera but not in IE11 or Edge (at time of writing). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/where-focus-goes-when-following-in-page-links-acqpovgzu)