Shift+tab in the first table cell does nothing

[mlewand]

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Go to the table sample https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/19.0.0/features/table.html
2. Place the caret in the first cell.
3. Press shift+tab.

✔️ Expected result

I'd like to discuss expected behavior, currently I'm keen to think that it should move cursor before the table.

This will be consistent with other widgets, e.g. image:

❌ Actual result

Nothing happens.

📃 Other details

Reproducible at least since 16.0.0.

• Browser: Chrome, Firefox (didn't check others)

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As a workaround one could use up / left arrows to get outside of the table.

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[Reinmar]

Our long-term plans for navigating in/out of nested editables is to use other keys (there's a separate ticket for that). But we can resolve this issue (Shift+Tab) in the meantime as the long-term solution will not be implemented anytime soon.

[niegowski]

I'd like to discuss expected behavior, currently I'm keen to think that it should move cursor before the table.

This will be consistent with other widgets, e.g. image:

How this works with image captions is a default browser behavior - Tab navigates to next editable (and this is different in Chrome and in Firefox). I would adjust it with arrow keys handling so Shift+Tab in the first table cell would select the whole table widget.