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Keyboard Support

The enable the keyboard navigation of RadDrawer set its Navigatable property to 'true'.

Keyboard legend

When the Drawer is focused, the current active item is selected. For a complete example, refer to the demo on keyboard navigation of the Drawer.

The drawer supports the following keyboard shortcuts:

SHORTCUT DESCRIPTION
Home Focuses the first item in the drawer.
End Focuses the last item in the drawer.
Up Arrow Focuses the previous item in the drawer.
Down Arrow Focuses the next item in the drawer.
Enter Selects the focused item.
Space Selects the focused item.
Esc Hides the drawer.

Focus

When the Navigatable property of the drawer is set to 'true', in the AccessKey property of the Control you can set the desired key for quick navigation to the drawer.

<telerik:RadDrawer runat="server" ID="RadDrawer1" Navigatable="true" AccessKey="W">

As result Alt + W focuses the drawer's active item.

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