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ASP.NET Core DateTimePicker Keyboard Navigation

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Files:
keyboard_navigation.cshtml
Keyboard_NavigationController.cs
Keyboard_Navigation_TagHelper.cshtml

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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 Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core DateTimePicker is based on the key-down events on the wrapper element of the component and is always available, as demonstrated in this demo. You can review the following available key combinations.

Focus:

Closed popup:

  • enter triggers change event
  • alt down arrow toggles popups
  • alt up arrow closes the opened popup

Opened popup (date view):

  • left arrow highlights previous day
  • right arrow highlights next day
  • up arrow highlights same day from the previous week
  • down arrow highlights same day from the next week
  • ctrl left arrow navigates to previous month
  • ctrl right arrow navigates to next month
  • ctrl up arrow navigates to previous view
  • ctrl down arrow navigates to next view
  • home highlights first day of the month
  • end highlights last day of the month
  • enter if in "month" view selects the highlighted day. In other views navigates to a lower view
  • esc closes the popup
  • t selects the current date

Opened popup (time view):

  • up arrow selects previous available time
  • down arrow selects next available time

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This DateTimePicker 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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