BUG: Keyboard navigation issues with entity-chooser popup in Rich Text

[Matt_Blais]

When creating/linking an entity in a Rich Text field (via typing "#"), there are keyboard navigation issues in the resulting entity-chooser popup:

1. Creating a new entity: after selecting a Type in the right pane with the mouse (required!), the keyboard focus is lost, so you cannot hit Enter to create the new entity.

2. Although I can select an existing entity OK with just the keyboard, creating a new entity requires using the mouse to select the Type . Please consider changing the function of the Tab key here to switch the keyboard focus to the right pane “Filter Types” field, and then allow cursor up/down/Enter to navigate through the resulting filtered list of Types to select one to create.

[Oshyan]

Since I am out of votes here, I can only “second”! And I think tab order improvements in general are still needed:

Improvement to Tab order? (keyboard field navigation)

Although I am not a keyboard shortcut zealot, I do like to keep hands on the keyboard when possible as it speeds interaction in many cases. I am finding that, in trying to fill out information in Entity forms (Fields), it is taking a lot longer than it needs to as there appear to be functions of each Field that are being “selected” by tabbing, but are not actually operable, nor what I want to be moving to next. In my opinion tab should move consecutively between data entry mode for each field, l…

[Chr1sG]

Me too, but I had no votes, and I couldn’t ‘heart’ it!

[Matt_Blais]

@Chr1sG

I had no votes, and I couldn’t ‘heart’ it!

Tough choices… you have to go “un-vote” some other stuff from your list first

[Chr1sG]

Haha, yes indeed, I’ve been shuffling my votes around, back and forth ever since the voting option was introduced