[Bug]: Datepicker has a weird behavior when Home / End buttons are clicked about fluentui

[smhigley]

Hi, thanks for logging the issue!

You are partly right about the behavior -- while it is not browser behavior (there is no default browser keyboard navigation for tables), it is the expected keyboard behavior for grid patterns, including date grids. You can see the same behavior, as well as documentation for home/end, in the APG grid examples.

You can see a similar home/end behavior in [v8's Datepicker], though there it takes you to the first/last date of the month instead of the first/last date of the week.

The home/end keyboard behavior lies in the same category as up/down/left/right arrow key behavior in that it's part of ensuring keyboard accessibility for our datepicker as a whole, so we can't remove it. The specific code handling the home/end (and also the arrow keys) comes from tabster, and is currently added to the window as a capture-phase event handler. Tabster does fire a focusing event that you can listen to, though the original keyboard event is not available. If you have a use case for needing to override or access the original keyboard event, I'd suggest opening a tabster bug (or @ling1726 might also have suggestions).

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Because this issue is marked as by design and has not had activity for over 3 days, we're automatically closing it for house-keeping purposes.