keyboard navigation

Just throwing some ideas. Not sure if you decide it in the scope of your project but keyboard navigation support for Grid/FlexTable/VirtualScroll would be neat feature. Main drawback that I see is that flex table row is placed completely in one grid cell. It means we will need several cell navigation implementation.

[cheahkhing]

In fact, i do see the needs for keyboard navigation. It is very user-friendly for those who use keyboard all the way. I am expecting the “arrow-down” “arrow-up” key can help me navigate the rows up and down, press “enter” will trigger selection, etc. Just like how Excel works with the cell focus.

[bvaughn]

Keyboard navigation is already supported, as pointed out above and as seen in the demo. Arrow keys can already be used to navigate up/down in FlexTable and VirtualScroll as well as left/right in Grid.

“Enter” does not trigger selection because, as I explained above, I don’t track the concept of a “selected” (or focused) cell, just a range of visible rows.

If this is a feature you need, you have a couple of options:

• Create your own high-order component decorator as I mentioned above that adds this functionality.
• Work with @Guria to put together a PR to add this functionality. (Note that I might refuse it if I don’t think it’s a good fit for the library, at which point you would have to decide whether you wanted to fork or not.)