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Angular Data Grid - Keyboard Navigation

To see all available keyboard shortcuts, refer to the DataGrid accessibility documentation: Keyboard Navigation.

Backend API
<p>Click this text and press <b>Tab</b></p> <dx-data-grid id="gridContainer" [dataSource]="employees" keyExpr="ID" [showBorders]="true" [focusedRowEnabled]="true" > <dxo-data-grid-editing [allowUpdating]="true" [allowDeleting]="true" [selectTextOnEditStart]="true" [useIcons]="true" > </dxo-data-grid-editing> <dxo-data-grid-header-filter [visible]="true"> </dxo-data-grid-header-filter> <dxo-data-grid-filter-panel [visible]="true"> </dxo-data-grid-filter-panel> <dxo-data-grid-filter-row [visible]="true"> </dxo-data-grid-filter-row> <dxo-data-grid-paging [pageSize]="10"> </dxo-data-grid-paging> <dxo-data-grid-pager [allowedPageSizes]="[5, 10]" [showPageSizeSelector]="true" [showNavigationButtons]="true" > </dxo-data-grid-pager> <dxo-data-grid-pager [visible]="true"></dxo-data-grid-pager> <dxi-data-grid-column dataField="FirstName"> </dxi-data-grid-column> <dxi-data-grid-column dataField="LastName"> </dxi-data-grid-column> <dxi-data-grid-column dataField="Position"> </dxi-data-grid-column> <dxi-data-grid-column dataField="StateID" caption="State"> <dxo-data-grid-lookup [dataSource]="states" valueExpr="ID" displayExpr="Name" > </dxo-data-grid-lookup> </dxi-data-grid-column> </dx-data-grid>
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { Component, enableProdMode, provideZoneChangeDetection } from '@angular/core'; import { DxDataGridModule } from 'devextreme-angular'; import { Service, Employee, State } from './app.service'; if (!/localhost/.test(document.location.host)) { enableProdMode(); } @Component({ styleUrls: [`app/app.component.css`], selector: 'demo-app', templateUrl: './app.component.html', providers: [Service], imports: [ DxDataGridModule, ], }) export class AppComponent { employees: Employee[]; states: State[]; constructor(service: Service) { this.employees = service.getEmployees(); this.states = service.getStates(); } } bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, { providers: [ provideZoneChangeDetection({ eventCoalescing: true, runCoalescing: true }), ], });
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; export class Employee { ID: number; FirstName: string; LastName: string; Prefix: string; Position: string; BirthDate: string; Address: string; StateID: number; } export class State { ID: number; Name: string; } const employees: Employee[] = [ { ID: 1, FirstName: 'John', LastName: 'Heart', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'CEO', BirthDate: '1964/03/16', Address: '351 S Hill St.', StateID: 5, }, { ID: 2, FirstName: 'Olivia', LastName: 'Peyton', Prefix: 'Mrs.', Position: 'Sales Assistant', BirthDate: '1981/06/03', Address: '807 W Paseo Del Mar', StateID: 5, }, { ID: 3, FirstName: 'Robert', LastName: 'Reagan', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'CMO', BirthDate: '1974/09/07', Address: '4 Westmoreland Pl.', StateID: 4, }, { ID: 4, FirstName: 'Greta', LastName: 'Sims', Prefix: 'Ms.', Position: 'HR Manager', BirthDate: '1977/11/22', Address: '1700 S Grandview Dr.', StateID: 11, }, { ID: 5, FirstName: 'Brett', LastName: 'Wade', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'IT Manager', BirthDate: '1968/12/01', Address: '1120 Old Mill Rd.', StateID: 13, }, { ID: 6, FirstName: 'Sandra', LastName: 'Johnson', Prefix: 'Mrs.', Position: 'Controller', BirthDate: '1974/11/15', Address: '4600 N Virginia Rd.', StateID: 44, }, { ID: 7, FirstName: 'Kevin', LastName: 'Carter', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'Shipping Manager', BirthDate: '1978/01/09', Address: '424 N Main St.', StateID: 5, }, { ID: 8, FirstName: 'Cynthia', LastName: 'Stanwick', Prefix: 'Ms.', Position: 'HR Assistant', BirthDate: '1985/06/05', Address: '2211 Bonita Dr.', StateID: 4, }, { ID: 9, FirstName: 'Kent', LastName: 'Samuelson', Prefix: 'Dr.', Position: 'Ombudsman', BirthDate: '1972/09/11', Address: '12100 Mora Dr', StateID: 26, }, { ID: 10, FirstName: 'Taylor', LastName: 'Riley', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'Network Admin', BirthDate: '1982/08/14', Address: '7776 Torreyson Dr', StateID: 5, }, { ID: 11, FirstName: 'Sam', LastName: 'Hill', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'Sales Assistant', BirthDate: '1984/02/17', Address: '645 Prospect Crescent', StateID: 11, }, { ID: 12, FirstName: 'Kelly', LastName: 'Rodriguez', Prefix: 'Ms.', Position: 'Support Assistant', BirthDate: '1988/05/11', Address: '1601 W Mountain St.', StateID: 5, }, { ID: 13, FirstName: 'Natalie', LastName: 'Maguirre', Prefix: 'Mrs.', Position: 'Trainer', BirthDate: '1977/10/07', Address: '6400 E Bixby Hill Rd', StateID: 29, }, { ID: 14, FirstName: 'Walter', LastName: 'Hobbs', Prefix: 'Mr.', Position: 'Programmer', BirthDate: '1984/12/24', Address: '10385 Shadow Oak Dr', StateID: 13, }, ]; const states: State[] = [ { ID: 1, Name: 'Alabama', }, { ID: 2, Name: 'Alaska', }, { ID: 3, Name: 'Arizona', }, { ID: 4, Name: 'Arkansas', }, { ID: 5, Name: 'California', }, { ID: 6, Name: 'Colorado', }, { ID: 7, Name: 'Connecticut', }, { ID: 8, Name: 'Delaware', }, { ID: 9, Name: 'District of Columbia', }, { ID: 10, Name: 'Florida', }, { ID: 11, Name: 'Georgia', }, { ID: 12, Name: 'Hawaii', }, { ID: 13, Name: 'Idaho', }, { ID: 14, Name: 'Illinois', }, { ID: 15, Name: 'Indiana', }, { ID: 16, Name: 'Iowa', }, { ID: 17, Name: 'Kansas', }, { ID: 18, Name: 'Kentucky', }, { ID: 19, Name: 'Louisiana', }, { ID: 20, Name: 'Maine', }, { ID: 21, Name: 'Maryland', }, { ID: 22, Name: 'Massachusetts', }, { ID: 23, Name: 'Michigan', }, { ID: 24, Name: 'Minnesota', }, { ID: 25, Name: 'Mississippi', }, { ID: 26, Name: 'Missouri', }, { ID: 27, Name: 'Montana', }, { ID: 28, Name: 'Nebraska', }, { ID: 29, Name: 'Nevada', }, { ID: 30, Name: 'New Hampshire', }, { ID: 31, Name: 'New Jersey', }, { ID: 32, Name: 'New Mexico', }, { ID: 33, Name: 'New York', }, { ID: 34, Name: 'North Carolina', }, { ID: 35, Name: 'Ohio', }, { ID: 36, Name: 'Oklahoma', }, { ID: 37, Name: 'Oregon', }, { ID: 38, Name: 'Pennsylvania', }, { ID: 39, Name: 'Rhode Island', }, { ID: 40, Name: 'South Carolina', }, { ID: 41, Name: 'South Dakota', }, { ID: 42, Name: 'Tennessee', }, { ID: 43, Name: 'Texas', }, { ID: 44, Name: 'Utah', }, { ID: 45, Name: 'Vermont', }, { ID: 46, Name: 'Virginia', }, { ID: 47, Name: 'Washington', }, { ID: 48, Name: 'West Virginia', }, { ID: 49, Name: 'Wisconsin', }, { ID: 50, Name: 'Wyoming', }, { ID: 51, Name: 'North Dakota', }]; @Injectable() export class Service { getEmployees() { return employees; } getStates() { return states; } }
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/26.1.5/css/dx.light.css" /> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <demo-app>Loading...</demo-app> </div> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/zone.js@0.16.2/bundles/zone.umd.js"></script> <script src="./bundle.js" type="module"></script> </body> </html>

In this demo, you can use the following keys and key combinations to interact with the DataGrid:

  • Enter
    Execute an action on a focused element.

  • Tab
    Navigate within DataGrid elements.

  • Ctrl + ↑ or Ctrl + ↓
    Navigate between a column header, filter row, data area, filter panel, and pager.