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Disabled ComboBox Items
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Updated on Jun 24, 2026

Some specific scenarios require the control over the enabled/disabled state of the different ComboBox items. Once an item is disabled it cannot be selected as a value for the component but based on the accessibility requirements of your application it could be focusable or not focusable, when navigating the different items using a keyboard.

The skipDisabledItems property of the ComboBox controls how the disabled items will be handled in a keyboard navigation scenarios. In this article you can see how the component behaves in the following scenarios:

Disabled Items Without Keyboard Focusing

The following example demonstrates ComboBox items that are disabled and cannot receive keyboard focus when navigating the list.

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Disabled Items With Keyboard Focusing

The following example demonstrates disabled ComboBox items that can still receive keyboard focus. Selecting a disabled item does not change the ComboBox value.

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Disabled Items Without Keyboard Focusing + Grouping

The following example demonstrates how to combine data grouping with disabled items that cannot receive keyboard focus.

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Disabled Items With Keyboard Focusing + Grouping

The following example demonstrates how to combine data grouping with disabled items that can receive keyboard focus but cannot be selected.

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