DevExtreme React - Keyboard Support

An end user can use the following keys to interact with the widget.

Key Action
Moves focus to the previous item.
Moves focus to the next item.

You can implement a custom handler for a key using the registerKeyHandler(key, handler) method.

jQuery
JavaScript
function registerKeyHandlers () {
    let navBar =  $("#navBarContainer").dxNavBar("instance");
    navBar.registerKeyHandler("backspace", function (e) {
        // The argument "e" contains information on the event
    });
    navBar.registerKeyHandler("space", function (e) {
        // ...
    });
}
Angular
TypeScript
import { ..., ViewChild, AfterViewInit } from "@angular/core";
import { DxNavBarModule, DxNavBarComponent } from "devextreme-angular";
// ...
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild(DxNavBarComponent, { static: false }) navBar: DxNavBarComponent
    // Prior to Angular 8
    // @ViewChild(DxNavBarComponent) navBar: DxNavBarComponent
    ngAfterViewInit () {
        this.navBar.instance.registerKeyHandler("backspace", function (e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.navBar.instance.registerKeyHandler("space", function (e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        // ...
        DxNavBarModule
    ],
    // ...
})
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