Navigatable grid stops at non-editable cells

[Stephen]

I have a grid with the navigatable option set to true. Some of the columns in the grid have editable set to false. When I tab through the columns, I would expect that when I come to a non-editable column the column should be skipped and go to the next editable column. This is not what happens. When I reach a non-editable column I have to hit 'tab' multiple times to get to the next editable column.

Is there a way around this?

I have also noticed that if I click on a cell to edit, and it is not the first column in the row, if I hit 'tab' the focus goes back to the first column in the row. I would expect that if I click on a cell to edit and then hit 'tab' it would always move to the next column, regardless of whether or not there are columns before my original edited cell.

Thanks!

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Stephen,

By design when the Grid navigatable property is set to true the navigation occurs at a cell level regardless of the cell is editable or not. That is the cause not to skip the non-editable cells in your grid. 

Regarding the other issue you have observed - I am not able to reproduce it locally. Could you please send a simple test project which reproduces the depicted issue? Thus I will be able to observe the problem and advice you further.

Kind regards,
Iliana Nikolova
the Telerik team

[Ryan]

Hi,do you have any tips as to how we might workaround the navigation design of kendo grid and have a limited range of columns that can be navigated too when pressing tab on the keyboard.

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello Ryan,

In general we do not recommend overriding/modifying the keyboard navigation functionality of the Kendo UI Grid. However there are some workarounds to achieve similar behavior. For example you can take a look at the Skip read only fields when using keyboard navigation on navigatable grid in batch edit mode forum thread. 

Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
Telerik by Progress