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Note that each of the three supported input methods - mouse, keyboard and touch - has its own characteristics, and not all visual feedback and interaction possibilities are supported by each.

In particular, you may focus on an item with the keyboard or by hovering the mouse over it. This is often visualized by softly highlighting the item. Touch interfaces, however, do not support moving the focus in the same intuitive manner. By touching an item, you already interact with it and thus you always move both focus and selection to the item. Consequently, Magnolia only supports item selection on touch devices.

On the other hand, selecting an item is as easy as clicking on it with a mouse or touching it. Selecting multiple items is also easy and intuitive, if you provide checkboxes next to the items. For mouse and touch, you thus have two ways to select items: you either touch or click the item, or you mark its checkbox. When using the keyboard, however, the clearest way to handle selection is to unify both interactions, since you always have to at least press a key to select an item. Magnolia thus also always toggles an item's checkbox on selection when using the keyboard.

If any of this is not entirely clear, please refer to the more detailed explanations and the matrix in the paragraphs below.