Keyboard Interaction

24 Sep 2021 / 2 minutes to read

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

Preview

app.component.ts

app.module.ts

main.ts

import { Component,HostListener,ViewChild } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    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);