Primeng: p-dropdown doesnt open when tabbed into with keyboard

Created on 27 Oct 2017  路  2Comments  路  Source: primefaces/primeng

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Current behavior
When you click into p-dropdown or p-calendar, it opens the dropdown/datepicker. When I am tabbing around the inputs with the keyboard, p-calendar opens the datepicker when focused, but dropdowns dont open when it receives focus from the keyboard tabbing.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
Proper focus behavior and styling on :focus is important for accessibility

Most helpful comment

@cagataycivici Thanks for the clarification. I would definitely toss in my hat for an openOnFocus feature. Thanks!

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It should not receive focus as this behavior is based on native select element, at least on mac. You can use alt+down to open it while it has focus. If more users demand this, I guess we can add openOnFocus property in the future.

For example try to focus the select at;

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select

For me on mac, it does not open. alt+down opens it though just like p-dropdown.

@cagataycivici Thanks for the clarification. I would definitely toss in my hat for an openOnFocus feature. Thanks!

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