Tabbing to new Fields

In a table with many text/select fields, pressing the tab button will take you left to right. How can I set it so tabbing will go where i please?

I tried

onkeydown="if(event.keyCode==9){theNextField.focus();}"

where theNextField is the field I'd like to enter after the tab. This behaved erratically and made JS throw exceptions.

[380 byte] By [vinays84a] at [2007-11-26 15:58:31]