Setting tab order in WPF

How do I set tab ordering in WPF? I have an ItemsControl with some items expanded and some collapsed and would like to skip the collapsed ones when I'm tabbing.

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

If you want to explicitly set the tab ordering for elements in your form, the following attached property is supposed to help:

<Control KeyboardNavigation.TabIndex="0" ... />

I say "supposed to help" as I haven't found it very reliable though I probably need to read more about how it is intended to be used. I only post this half baked answer because no one else mentioned this property.

Note that in Win RT, the property is just TabIndex="0".

Solution 2:

You can skip elements in the tab sequence by setting KeyboardNavigation.IsTabStop on the element in XAML.

KeyboardNavigation.IsTabStop="False"

You can setup a trigger that would toggle this property based on the expanded state.