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 Data Grid keyboard navigation is enabled by default, as demonstrated in this demo.
The Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core Data Grid supports the following keyboard shortcuts:
Focus
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Alt
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W
Focuses the component.
Actions Applied to the Data Grid Header
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Enter
Sorts by the column.
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Alt
+
Down
Opens the filter menu.
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Esc
Closes the filter menu.
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Tab
Navigates through the elements in the filter menu (default browser behavior).
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Shift
+
Tab
Same as
Tab, but in reverse order.
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Ctrl
+
Left Arrow
Reorders the column with the previous one.
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Ctrl
+
Right Arrow
Reorders the column with the next one.
Actions Applied to the Data Grid Table
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Arrow Keys
Navigate over the cells.
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Enter
On a group row toggles the expand and collapse state.
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Page Up
Pages to the previouse page.
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Page Down
Pages to the next page.
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Space
Selects the row holding the currently highlighted cell.
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Ctrl
+
Space
(For the multiple selection mode) Selects or deselects the current row while persisting the previously selected ones.
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Shift
+
Space
Performs range selection, selects all the rows between the last selected one (with
Space or a mouse click) and the one holding the focused cell.
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Shift
+
Arrow Keys
(For the multiple selection mode) Adds the row which holds the focused cell to the selection.
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Ctrl
+
Home
Focuses the first focusable element inside the body.
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Ctrl
+
End
Focuses the last focusable cell in the last row.
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Home
Focuses the first focusable cell in the row.
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End
Focuses the last focusable cell in the row.
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Ctrl
+
Space
Groups or ungroups the focused column.
Additional Apps
This Grid example is part of unique collection of hundreds of ASP.NET Core demos, with which you can see all
Telerik ASP.NET Core 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
Telerik REPL for ASP.NET Core or
ThemeBuilder.
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