This is an enhancement for the Angular CDK SelectionModel implementation. It provides a controller for data tables and lists adding mouse and keyboard selection. The behavior is just like in other well known applications, such as email selection in Microsoft Outlook or file selection in Windows file Explorer.
Check out the Demo with feature simulation.
| ↓/↑ | Select next or previous item, current selection is cleared |
| Ctrl+↑/↓ | Move focus to next or previous item only |
| Shift+↑/↓ | Range select next or previous item, current selection is cleared |
| Ctrl+Shift+↑/↓ | Range select next or previous item, adding to current selection |
| Space | Select focused item, current selection is cleared |
| Ctrl+Space | Toggle focused item, current selection is not cleared |
| Ctrl+A | Select all items |
| Click | Select item, current selection is cleared |
| Ctrl+Click | Toggle item, current selection is not cleared |
| Shift+Click | Range select from focused item until clicked item, current selection is cleared |
| Ctrl+Shift+Click | Range select from focused item until clicked item, adding to current selection |