List grid loosing focus when clicking on tabset

[swatiagarwal]

Hi,
I am using below verison
SmartClient Version: v11.1p_2017-07-09/PowerEdition Deployment (built 2017-07-09)

In my application, i have three components stacked one below another :
1. Header which is a Hlayout
2. Navigation bar which is a tabset
3. Content section which contains a grid.

Whenever user clicks on a grid cell it is focussed and appears blue. Then on using down arrow key user can move to the next cell and so on.
Now, when user clicks on a grid cell and clicks outside grid on the header(Hlayout), the grid cell remains focussed and we are still able to move to next cell using down arrow key.
But when user clicks on tabset, the cell appears blue but we are not able to move to next cell using down arrow key. Can we remove the focus from grid in this case or retain the focus such that the arrow keys is functional.
Please help

Regards,
Swati

[Isomorphic]

Clicking on a tab or in the tabset area moves focus to the tab and from that point arrow navigation controls moving between tabs. This is both correct and required for accessibility. If you meant to ask about something else, please be far more specific in terms of both the area clicked on, the behavior you expected, and how this can be reconciled with accessibility requirements for navigating tab sets.

[swatiagarwal]

Thanks for the response. Sorry i forgot to mention that i have added 4 tabs to the tabset and they occupy some part of the tabset leaving the other side blank. This happens when i click on the blank area of tabset.

[Isomorphic]

OK. Please see previous response.

[swatiagarwal]

Yes but is there any way i can stop the click on blank area in tabset.

[Isomorphic]

Clicking in the Tabset moves focus to the tabset and should.

If you'd like to break accessibility guidelines and force focus back to the grid, you can do so via available event handlers such as "click".