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jQuery PropertyGrid Keyboard Navigation

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Description

Keyboard navigation provides all web and app users with a fast keyboard-only navigation capability and is also part of the web accessibility features–it enables users with disabilities to fully control their website or app access through the keyboard.

By default, users can only navigate to links, buttons, and form controls with a keyboard. The navigation order in which interactive items receive keyboard focus has to be logical and intuitive. Generally, keyboard navigation logic needs to follow the visual horizontal and vertical flow of the page, for example, left to right and top to bottom, header first followed by the main and then the page navigation.

The keyboard navigation of the Kendo UI for jQuery PropertyGrid is always available as demonstrated in this demo.

This PropertyGrid example is part of a unique collection of hundreds of jQuery demos, with which you can see all Kendo UI for jQuery components and their features in action. View the source code of the demos from the library or directly adapt, and edit them and their theme appearance in Kendo UI for jQuery Dojo or ThemeBuilder.

The PropertyGrid supports the following keyboard shortcuts:

Focus

  • Alt + W Focuses the component.

Actions Applied to the PropertyGrid Data Table

  • Arrow Keys Navigate over the cells.
  • Space Selects the row holding the currently highlighted cell.
  • Enter or F2 Puts the item in the edit mode.
  • Esc Cancels the edit or, if an element inside a cell is focused, returns the focus to the table.
  • Ctrl + Home Focuses the first focusable element inside the body.
  • Ctrl + End Focuses the last focusable element inside the body.
  • Alt + Right Arrow Expands the currently selected item, either a group or a composite item.
  • Alt + Left Arrow Collapses the currently selected item, either a group or a composite item.
  • Home Focuses the first focusable cell in the row.
  • End Focuses the last focusable cell in the row.

Actions Applied to the PropertyGrid ToolBar

  • F10 Focuses the ToolBar.
  • Right Arrow Focuses the next focusable item.
  • Left Arrow Focuses the previous focusable item.
  • Enter Selects the focused button, or enters the inner template navigation if the template contains focusable items, or opens CommandOverflow menu when overflow anchor is focused.
  • Space Selects the focused button.
  • Home Focuses the first focusable item.
  • End Focuses the last focusable item.
  • Esc If the inner template navigation is activated, moves the focus back to the PropertyGrid ToolBar item.

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