Telerik UI for Windows 8 HTML

RadAutoCompleteBox features keyboard support for quick item selection with the keyboard. Below are the keys and key combinations needed to navigate the control and select items.

  • Focus the control: TAB key when the control is next in the tab order.

  • Open the popup: the popup shows only when the text input matches one or more predefined items. Once the popup is shown, the user can use the following keys for navigation and selection.

  • Highlight previous item: up arrow.

  • Highlight next item: down arrow.

  • Select highlighted item: Enter key.

  • Close popup: Esc key.