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Selecting an item is as easy as clicking on it or touching it. Selecting multiple items is also easy, if we provide checkboxes. For these input methods, you thus have two way to select items: you either touch the item or click on it, or you mark its checkbox. When using the keyboard, however, the clearest way to handle item selection is to unify both: when you select the item by pressing a key, you also immediately mark its checkbox.
| Mouse | Keyboard | Touch head1 |
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Supports highlighting item | colA1 | colA1 | colA2 |
Supports selecting single item without marking its checkbox | colA1 | colB1 | colB2 |
Supports selecting single item by marking its checkbox | colA1 | colB1 | colB2 |
Supports selecting multiple items by marking their checkbox | colA1 | colB1 | colB2 |
Supports executing an operation when selected, but not markedhead1 | colA1 | colB1 | colB2 |
If any of this is not entirely clear, please refer to the more detailed explanations and the matrix below.
More detailed description
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