Grid Keyboard Navigation

Shield UI Grid Keyboard Navigation is for people who cannot use a mouse or other pointing device, or who want to use a keyboard as much as possible. This functionality cover accessibility standards for people with disabilities can directly benefit from it. Keyboard Navigation are useful for people with a wide range of disabilities, as well as anyone who wants to save time by combining key commands with mouse control.

You can use the following keys, comforming to the latest WAI-ARIA specification, to work with the widget:

To	Press
Focuses the grid in this example only (not built-in functionality)	Ctrl + G
Moves the focus between cells	Arrow keys
navigates to the previous page if pagination is turned on	Page Up
navigates to the next page if pagination is turned on	Page Down
moves the focus to the first cell in the row that contains focus	Home
moves the focus to the last cell in the row that contains focus	End
moves focus to the first cell in the first visible row	Ctrl + Home
moves focus to the last cell in the last visible row	Ctrl + End
when pressed on a header cell, invokes sorting for that column	Enter
selects the current cell/row if selection is enabled	Space
when pressed on an editable cell, disables grid navigation and puts this cell/row in edit mode	Enter
if grid navigation is disabled, saves all changes and restores grid navigation	Enter
if grid navigation is disabled, cancels any edits and restores grid navigation	Escape
moves focus to next widget in the grid	TAB
moves focus to previous widget in the grid	Shift + TAB