Controlling admin ManyToManyField widget with keyboard

[cool-RR]

Hi,

How do I control the admin ManyToManyField widget with the keyboard?

Thanks,

Ram.

[C. Kirby]

While holding Ctrl (Command on a Mac), click the spacebar on the relations you want to select.
Spacebar handles the toggle action, ctrl(command) keeps you in multi-select mode

[Ram Rachum]

Sorry, space doesn't do the toggle. (Windows 7 Chrome.)

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[C. Kirby]

It appears that multi-select form widgets cannot be keyboard controlled in chromium, and it is a known bug/non-implementation:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=90172

[Ram Rachum]

Are you sure that you're not confusing the behavior of the select box with the toggle action? Because I'm having trouble with the toggle action, not the select box.

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[C. Kirby]

I don't think I am. A ManyToMany relation in admin is represented as a select-multiple html widget - is that what we are talking about?

The action that I described in my first message to select multiple elements in a select-multiple widget works in Firefox, Opera, and with a modifier in IE. It does not work in Chromium as indicated by the issue I linked to in the last message.

Please let me know if I am missing something in your question.

Regards,
~CK

[Ram Rachum]

The widget is a combination of two multiple select boxes and arrows to move items between boxes. I have no issues with the selecting part. I have an issue with the moving part.

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[C. Kirby]

Oh, sorry. That widget uses ModelAdmin.filter_horizontal (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.filter_horizontal), it is not the standard admin ManyToMany widget. I just tested it in user permissions. I just got it to work by selecting(multiple) elements in one widget, tabbing to the move arrow, and clicking enter.
Maybe that will work for you?

Regards,
~CK

[Ram Rachum]

Ah, that works. It's not as nice as being able to move them without a tab dance, but it works.

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