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In the kendo multiselect, when an item is deselected, it does not take the focus from the previously selected item. For example,
https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/multiselect/keyboard-navigation
- In the demo, select small, medium, and large in that order.
- Open the list and click on small to deselect it.
- Open the list and notice that large still has the focus.
- The expected behavior is that small would take the focus from large.
Using only the keyboard:
- Press the down arrow to open the list.
- Using the down arrow and enter keys, select Small, medium, large, and xlarge in that order.
- Using the down arrow and enter keys, deselect medium
- Use the down arrow to open the dropdown.
- Observe that xlarge is focused. The expected behavior would be that medium is focused.
- Now select small and deselect large. Notice that small still has the focus.
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Hello, Lee,
The current behaviour is the expected one as there are cases in which the deselected item might not be present in the list. Such a case would be when there is virtualization enabled.
Still, if you need to focus the deselected item, in the deselect event you have the e.item parameter, which corresponds to the deselected HTML element in the list. You can try using custom logic to programmatically focus the element in the open event, but we would recommend careful testing for undesired or confusing behaviour.
Regards,
Martin
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Hello, Lee,
I was referring to the same scenario to deselect an item from the list. Currently that is how the MultiSelect behave regarding the focus, by design. Still, I consulted on the matter with a developer colleague, and he confirmed the information so far.
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Hello, Lee,
As we do not recommend overriding the default behaviour, we leave it up to the developer to best decide how to achieve the desired customization. As the component doesn't provide anything specific on that matter, you can use the jQuery methods to focus the item as per your expectations.