Required fields on tabs
Scenario: There are four tabs on a webpage. Each tab contains a webform. Some of the fields are required.
If a user doesn't complete a required field on tab two, and clicks tab four without saving, what should happen?
- The user is prevented from going to tab four until the required field is filled in
- The user is permitted to go to tab four, and tab two reverts to its previous information (all changes to tab two are discarded; there might even be a warning dialog before this happens)
- Something else
(I don't like putting webforms in tabs, but I've had to work on software that was set up this way.)