Tab with enter key in GridView

[David Schulz]

Is it possible to treat the enter key like tab for tabbing through cells in a gridview?

[Vlad]

Hello David,

Unfortunately this is not possible currently. We will do our best to add this for Q1 2010 (middle of March).

Best wishes,
Vlad
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[Son Nguyen]

Is this functionality available now?

[Milan]

Hi Bilal Azam,

By default the grid will not behave this way but now you can easily alter its behavior by using IKeyboardCommandsProvider as demonstrated in this blog post. 

Sincerely yours,
Milan
the Telerik team

[Son Nguyen]

Hi Milan,

The link to the other blog post doesn't seem to be working.

Regards,
Bilal Azam

[Milan]

Hello Bilal Azam,

Seems that the blog title has changed - here is the updated link.

Sincerely yours,
Milan
the Telerik team

[Jose]

I am looking for the information mentioned in this thread. The link(s) to the blog post do not work. I was unable to find the post by searching in your blog either. Is the post still available? Do you have an updated link you can share with us?

[Dilyan Traykov]

Hello,

This kind of functionality can be achieved by creating a custom Keyboard Command Provider for our GridView. We simply have to add the following lines to its ProvideCommandsForKey method:

if (key == Key.Enter)
{
    commandsToExecute.Clear();

    commandsToExecute.Add(RadGridViewCommands.MoveNext);
    commandsToExecute.Add(RadGridViewCommands.SelectCurrentUnit);

    if (this.parentGrid.RowInEditMode != null)
    {
        commandsToExecute.Add(RadGridViewCommands.BeginEdit);
    }
}

// remove if you still want the user to be able to navigate with Tab
if (key == Key.Tab)
{
    commandsToExecute.Clear();
}

I hope this information is of help.

Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
Telerik