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# Making keyboard navigation effortless

**[Patrick Brosset](https://daily.dev/sources/patrickbrosset)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

focusgroup is a new web platform feature that provides built-in arrow key navigation for complex UI widgets such as menus, menubars, tabs, and groups of inputs. It is currently testable in Edge, Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers, aiming to make keyboard navigation easier to implement without custom JavaScript.

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