fix(table): Add an isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop to disable the navigation

[macci001]

Closes #3681

📝 Description

PR adds isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop to disable navigation on keypress

⛳️ Current behavior (updates)

• Currently, whenever any arrow-key keypress is triggered it navigates the focus to other cell/row.
• This maybe an issue when the table cell contains a component which requires this keys for specific purpose.
• Example for above scenario could be: table cell contains input component, it might need arrow keys for editing. But it is not possible because whenever the keypress triggers navigation

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61ae353d-cdca-4cbf-b12d-1146da371704

🚀 New behavior

• The PR adds an isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop to disable the navigation through keyboard.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c05c084a-8caf-4959-aee8-102818220a0a

💣 Is this a breaking change (Yes/No): No

Additional info

• updated the docs

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Introduced isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop for the Table component, allowing users to disable keyboard navigation when interacting with components that require arrow key inputs.

• Documentation

  • Updated Table component documentation to include details about the new isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop.

• Tests

  • Added a test case to verify the functionality of the isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop, ensuring keyboard navigation is disabled when the prop is set to true.

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Latest commit: 40a6706964d26ad56051cb4428ced832ad8a817f

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 2 packages

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@nextui-org/table	Patch
@nextui-org/react	Patch

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Walkthrough

This update introduces a new prop, isKeyboardNavigationDisabled, to the Table component in the @nextui-org/table package. This prop allows developers to disable keyboard navigation within table cells, particularly beneficial for inputs or text areas that require arrow key usage. The change includes updates to the documentation, ensuring that developers are informed about the new functionality.

Changes

Files	Change Summary
.changeset/fluffy-icons-refuse.md, apps/docs/content/docs/components/table.mdx	Added isKeyboardNavigationDisabled prop to the Table component and updated documentation.

Assessment against linked issues

Objective	Addressed	Explanation
Allow inline editing without navigation to the next cell (Issue #3681)	✅

Possibly related PRs

• #3020: This PR addresses keyboard behavior in input/textarea elements within a table, which is directly related to the new isKeyboardNavigationDisabled property introduced in the main PR, as both involve keyboard navigation handling in table components.
• #2097: This PR improves RTL support for the table component, which may relate to the keyboard navigation changes in the main PR, as keyboard navigation behavior can be affected by layout direction.
• #3419: This PR allows cursor navigation within text in an Input component inside an Accordion, which is relevant as it also deals with keyboard navigation and user input behavior in components similar to the changes made in the main PR.

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👀 Status: In Review

Suggested reviewers

• wingkwong
• ryo-manba

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[AnYiEE]

I think a better solution is to automatically disable keyboard navigation temporarily when the focus is on the input, so that can move the cursor with the keyboard and use the Tab key to navigate to other elements of the table after leaving the input.

[macci001]

Thanks for the suggestion @AnYiEE. But I do not think it would be a great idea to write in a logic that checks if component is input component then stop the keyboard navigation. One work-around which I thought could be helpful is rather than adding a prop isKeyboardNavigationDisabled to the table, we can add this prop to any of the cell. If any cell with isKeyboardNavigationDisabled as true, keyboard navigation will be stopped when then cell is in focus.

any thoughts here @wingkwong, should we go forward with adding the prop to the Table or it would be helpful to add the functionality to the TableCell instead.

[soyeon9211]

@macci001 Is it not merge yet? I need this option :(

[macci001]

@wingkwong can I please get in some review here?

[macci001]

Reflecting on your comment @ryo-manba I can think of following design for the edit mode:

• In any of the cases, one when the cell has focusable children and other when cell do not have focusable children, always entire cell is focused. That is, focusMode set to cell instead of child.
• Whenever there is Enter keypress on a focused cell:
  • If cell does have some focusable children:
    • Set the focus on the first/last focusable children (based on RTL)
    • Add the keyboard navigation on shift + leftarrowkey and shift + rightarrowkey for navigating to prev/next focusable children of the cell.
  • If cell does not have any focusable children -> do nothing i.e. edit mode is not relevant in this case.
• Esc/Tab keypress to exit the edit mode.

Note 1: For navigation between focusable children of the cell, getFocusableTreeWalker will be used.

Note 2: For now, the useTableCell internally uses useGridCell's default value for focusMode i.e. child. This means, that whenever the cell will be in focus, the focus will shift to the focusableChild if it exist, else entire cell would be in focus. In order to implement the edit mode, we would need the react-aria team to add a prop by which we can set the focusMode to cell.

[ryo-manba]

@macci001 Thank you for your detailed insights. I'll discuss it with the team and see how we can proceed.

[jrgarciadev]

Hey @macci001 please fix the conflicts