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Allow keyboard arrows to move between cells in a table
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I think it would be a good feature to use keyboard arrows to move within the cells of a keyboard table.

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Juandev created this task.Dec 18 2014, 9:20 AM
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matmarex added a subscriber: matmarex.Dec 18 2014, 11:52 PM

I believe this is already possible.

Etonkovidova added a subscriber: Etonkovidova.Dec 19 2014, 7:31 PM

Checked on Mac and Windows - cannot navigate within a table with arrow buttons(or a tab).

matmarex added a comment.Dec 19 2014, 8:56 PM

I can navigate with arrow keys (as long as a cell is "selected" (blue overlay) and not focused (has blinking cursor inside)), until I press the Tab key, at which point I am no longer able to navigate with arrow keys.

Esanders added a subscriber: Esanders.Dec 19 2014, 8:59 PM

WFM too. Once you are editing the cell the arrow keys will move you around the paragraph.

Etonkovidova added a comment.Dec 19 2014, 9:40 PM

My bad - yes, with blue overlay, arrows keys allow to navigate- that's right.

Juandev added a comment.Dec 25 2014, 5:52 PM

But in Google Tabs or MS Excell you can user arrows to leave table cell after the end of typing. Thats why it is confusing this to me. Can we enable such behaviour?

Whatamidoing-WMF added a project: VisualEditor-Tables.Dec 29 2014, 6:22 PM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Allow keyboard arrows to move within the table to Allow keyboard arrows to move between cells in a table.Feb 11 2015, 5:32 PM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Lowest priority.
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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Feb 11 2015, 5:40 PM
Esanders closed this task as Resolved.Jan 22 2016, 1:27 AM
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Bug as filed is resolved.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Freezer to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.Feb 4 2016, 6:51 PM
Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 8.May 10 2016, 1:15 AM
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