Keyboard Navigation

12 Apr 20177 minutes to read

The Menu control also provides support for keyboard navigation. In the Menu control, it is possible to control the entire menu control items by using the provided shortcut keys.

The various keyboard shortcuts available within the Menu control are discussed in the following table,

List of keyboard shortcut keys

Keys	Usage
Esc	Closes the opened Menu control.
Enter	Selects the focused item.
Up/left/down/right arrow keys	Navigates up or previous item.
Down	Navigates down or next item.
Left	Navigates to previous group.
Right	Navigates to next group.

1. Add the following code for Keyboard navigation in your Menu control.

CSHTML

<ej-menu id="keyboard" width="60%">
    <e-menu-items>
        <e-menu-item id="Products" text="Products">
            <e-menu-child-items>
                <e-menu-child-item text="ASP.NET" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="ASP.NET MVC" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Mobile MVC" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Silverlight" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Windows Forms" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Windows Phone" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="WinRT (XMAL)" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="WPF" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Orubase Studio" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Metro Studio" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="What's New" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
            </e-menu-child-items>
            <e-menu-child-items>
                <e-menu-child-item text="ASP.NET" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="ASP.NET MVC" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Mobile MVC" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Silverlight" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Windows Forms" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Windows Phone" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="" url="ASP.NET MVC"></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="" url="ASP.NET"></e-menu-child-item>
            </e-menu-child-items>
        </e-menu-item>
        <e-menu-item text="Support" url="">
            <e-menu-child-items>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Direct-Trac Support" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Community Forums" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Knowledge Base" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Online Documentation" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Services" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
            </e-menu-child-items>
            <e-menu-child-items>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Consulting" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Training" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
            </e-menu-child-items>
        </e-menu-item>
        <e-menu-item text="Purchase" id="Purchase" url="">
        </e-menu-item>
        <e-menu-item text="Downloads" id="Downloads" url="">
            <e-menu-child-items>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Evaluation" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Free E-Books" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Metro Studio" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="C" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="Version History" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
            </e-menu-child-items>
        </e-menu-item>
        <e-menu-item id="Resources" Text="Resources" Url="">
            <e-menu-child-items>
                <e-menu-child-item text="E-Books" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
                <e-menu-child-item text="White Papers" url=""></e-menu-child-item>
            </e-menu-child-items>
        </e-menu-item>
    </e-menu-items>
</ej-menu>
	// Add the following code in your <script> section.
	<script type="text/javascript"> 
		   jQuery(function ($)
		   {  
			   //Control focus key 
			   $(document).on("keydown", function (e)
			   { 
				   if (e.altKey && e.keyCode === 74)
				   { 
						// j- key code. 
						$("#keyboard").focus(); 
				   }
			   });
		   });
	</script>

1. Add the following code in your style section.

CSS

<style type="text/css">

		#keyboard 
		{
			margin-left: 50px;

		}

	</style>

Following screenshot displays the output of the above code.

Accessibility

When you press alt+j, the first item of the Menu control only gets focused as displayed in the following screenshot.

Keyboard Navigation

Similarly you can access the Menu control using keyboard itself.