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Keyboard Interaction

You can use the following keys to interact with the Calendar. The component implements the keyboard navigation support by following the WAI-ARIA practices

It supports the below list of shortcut keys.

Press To do this
Upper Arrow Focus the previous week date.
Down Arrow Focus the next week date.
Left Arrow Focus the previous date.
Right Arrow Focus the next date.
Home Focus the first date in the month.
End Focus the last date in the month.
Page Up Focus the same date in the previous month.
Page Down Focus the same date in the next month.
Enter Select the currently focused date.
Shift + Page Up Focus the same date in the previous year.
Shift + Page Down Focus the same date in the previous year.
Control + Upper Arrow Moves into the inner level of view like month-year, year-decade
Control + Down Arrow Moves out from the depth level view like decade-year, year-month
Control + Home Focus the starting date in the current year.
Control + End Focus the ending date in the current year.

To focus the Calendar component use the alt+t keys.

Source
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app.component.ts
app.module.ts
main.ts
import { Component,HostListener,ViewChild } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-container',
    template: `
        <ejs-calendar #ejCalendar [value]='dateValue'></ejs-calendar>
        `
})

export class AppComponent {
   @ViewChild('ejCalendar') ejCalendar: CalendarComponent;
    public dateValue: Date = new Date();
    @HostListener('document:keyup', ['$event'])
  handleKeyboardEvent(event: KeyboardEvent) {
    if (event.altKey && event.keyCode === 84 /* t */) {
        // press alt+t to focus the control.
        this.ejCalendar.element.querySelectorAll('.e-content table')[0].focus();
    }
  }
    constructor() {
    }
}
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
//Syncfusion ej2-angular-calendars module
import { CalendarModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-calendars';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';


/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        CalendarModule //declaration of ej2-angular-calendars module into NgModule
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);
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