angular-ui/ui-grid

Row Selection via Keyboard Nav

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#3,437 opened on May 6, 2015

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good first issuetype: enhancement

Description

We are using ui-grid (3.0) for displaying a lot of read-only data in our application. I can enable rowSelection very easily using enableRowSelection = true; It works great when using the mouse. However, if I then enable keyboard navigation, I would also like the up/down arrow keys to select an entire row.

I think it would be fairly easy to do with a directive that mimics the code that is already there to do row selection with the mouse but it would be great if this functionality was built into the grid instead of hacking this in by the client code.

Is there any way this could be added.

I am totally new to Github and maybe this should be a pull request (feature request) and not an Issue? Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this request.

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Tech stack
javascriptangular
Domain
frontend
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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1-2 days
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stale
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Prerequisites
Basic AngularJS knowledgeFamiliarity with ui grid internals
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
20
Research direction
Examine the existing implementation of keyboard navigation and row selection in the ui grid source code (likely in the core module files) to understand how to integrate row selection with arrow keys. Review any existing tests or related issues for patterns. Propose a design for a directive or core enhancement that allows arrow keys to trigger row selection while keyboard navigation is enabled.