Keyboard Navigation (igTextEditor)

Topic overview

This topic explains how to use keyboard navigation so that end-users can easily and quickly navigate through inputs and interact with them.

This topic contains the following sections:

You can use the standard key combinations for functionalists such as copy, cut, paste, undo and redo and these further ones.

Press	To
`Right Arrow`	Move the mouse indicator one char to the right
`Left Arrow`	Move the mouse indicator one char to the left
`Ctrl` + `Right Arrow`	Move the caret one chunk to the right
`Ctrl` + `Left Arrow`	Move the caret one chunk to the left
`Ctrl` + `Home` or just `Home`	Move the mouse indicator to the start of the input
`Ctrl` + `End` or just `End`	Move the mouse indicator to the end of the input
`Backspace`	Delete the previous char
`Delete`	Delete the following char
`Ctrl` + `Backspace`	Delete the previous chunk
`Ctrl` + `Delete`	Delete the following chunk
`Delete` or `Backspace`	Delete selected content
`Enter` and `Alt` + `Enter`	Go to new row in multiline text editor

In this section you can see the key combinations that can be used to focus the editor and select part of its value or the whole one.

Press	To
`Tab` or `Shift` + `Tab`	Focus the editor
`Shift` + `Tab`	Focus the previous component
`Tab`	Focus the following component
`Shift` + `Right Arrow`	Select char to the right
`Shift` + `Left Arrow`	Select char to the left
`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Right Arrow`	Select to current chunk end or select one chunk to the right
`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Left Arrow`	Select to current chunk start or select one chunk to the left
`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Home` or `Shift` + `Home`	Select value in the input till start
`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `End` or `Shift` + `End`	Select value in the input till end
`Ctrl` + `A`	Select the whole value in the input

In this section you can see what key combinations can be used when you have a text editor with dropdown.

Press	To
`Alt` + `Down Arrow` or `Down Arrow`	Open the dropdown, when the focus is in the input
`Alt` + `Up Arrow` or `Esc`	Close the dropdown, when the focus is on the dropdown list
`Up Arrow`	Close the dropdown, when the focus is on the top item of the dropdown list
`Down Arrow`	Move to next item, when the focus is on the list of items
`Up Arrow`	Move to previous item, when the focus is on the list of items
`Enter`	Confirm focused item as selected
`Enter` or `Alt` + `Up Arrow`	Reject focused item and keep old selection

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