Check out the ASP.NET TreeList’s keyboard navigation feature that is available to you now in the DXperience 2010 vol 1 release:
Benefits
The ASPxTreeList’s keyboard support allows you and your users to control the ASPxTreeList's primary navigation operations (such as accessing the control within the form, moving focus through its nodes, node selection and expanding/collapsing, paging) quickly and effectively using a keyboard.
In addition, enabling keyboard support within the ASPxTreeList helps you more easily create web pages that conform to accessibility guidelines.
How To Use
To enable keyboard navigation, set the ASPxTreeList's KeyboardSupport property to true. This activates the following features:
- Access Key - The ASPxTreeList control can be easily accessed (focused) by using a user-defined keyboard shortcut. This shortcut is composed by combining the preset CTRL+SHIFT combination with a single character string specified via the AccessKey property. For example, setting the access key of a TreeList control to the string "T" indicates that an end-user can navigate to the grid by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T.
- Focused Node - The Focused Node feature is automatically activated, regardless of the corresponding feature property setting (SettingsBehavior.AllowFocusedNode). Focus can be moved between nodes by using the UP and DOWN ARROW keys. The LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys can also be used to move node focus, but these keys initially try to collapse/expand a node and, if it's impossible, only then do they move focus. Moving focus from the ultimate (first or last) node within a page changes the page within the ASPxTreeList, if possible.
- Node Selection - The SPACE key can be used to mark a focused node as selected/unselected. This works if selection can be applied to a node - that is, if the SettingsSelection.Enabled property is enabled. If the SettingsSelection.Recursive property is disabled, multiple nodes can be easily selected, by moving row focus using the ARROW keys (UP/DOWN or LEFT/RIGHT) while holding down the SHIFT key.
- Expanding/Collapsing Nodes - The PLUS and MINUS keys can be respectively used to expand and collapse nodes. In addition, node collapsing and expanding can be performed using the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys.
- Paging - The SHIFT+PAGE UP and SHIFT+PAGE DOWN key combinations can be used to go to the next/previous grid page.
The ASP.NET Treelist’s keyboard feature is available now in your DXperience v2010 vol 1 release.
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