Question

Suppose you have a StackPanel, which contains a ScrollViewer which contains another StackPanel with an ItemsControl with a bound ItemsSource. This ItemsSource is bound to a collection of Grids created at runtime. Each Grid contains a label and a textbox/combobox/a few checkboxes that all have a unique TabIndex value within the StackPanel.
Here is the xaml:

<ScrollViewer Name="scrollViewer" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
  <StackPanel Name="stackPanel" MinWidth="500" Width="Auto">
    <ItemsControl Name="itemsControl"                          ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=SomeWindow, Path=GridsCollection,Mode=TwoWay,UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"/>
  </StackPanel>
</ScrollViewer>

I want to simply tab from one control to the next, but only within the controls in the grids in the grids collection. So far I’ve tried different KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation settings but without any luck. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Set TabNavigation to KeyboardNavigationMode.Cycle for each container you want to behave like that, so the focus won’t escape it as long as you use Tab and Shift+Tab:

KeyboardNavigation.SetTabNavigation(grid1, KeyboardNavigationMode.Cycle);

If you want to change Ctrl+Tab behaviour, use KeyboardNavigation.SetControlTabNavigation.