# Arrow Key Navigation for Table

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arrow-key-navigation-for-table/207241>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 15, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arrow-key-navigation-for-table/207241 "2006-11-15T20:34:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![bloodtasteirony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bloodtasteirony](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bloodtasteirony)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arrow-key-navigation-for-table/207241/1 "2006-11-15T20:34:48Z")

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I need to be able to use the keyboard to navigate a flash interface. Basically the user will use the arrow keys to “shift focus” to different elements (arranged in 3 columns with many rows) and a select button to select these elements. Each selectable element needs to have a “up/normal”, “hover/selected”, and “down/clicked” state simmilar to buttons, but I dont want to use the mouse.

Im lost as to how to begin to set this up. Should each of these “selectable elements” be a unique movie clip?

Thanks

Also, to further complicate this project :stare:, the content will also be dynamically displayed from an xml document, but I’m just trying to sort out the navigation for now.