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Remove JTable's Enter Key behavior

2007-03-18 in Java / Legacy tagged Java / JTable / Legacy / Swing by Marc Nuri | Last updated: 2023-09-06
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When you press the Enter key while in a JTable, you'll notice how the row selection changes to the next row or to the first row if the former row selected was the last row in the model. You can change this playing with the traversal key policy, but this is quite complicated.

The easy way is to consume the event if the enter key has been pressed. You can accomplish this doing the following:

JTable jMyTable = new JTable();
jMyTable.addKeyListener(new java.awt.event.KeyAdapter() {
     public void keyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
         jMyTableKeyPressed(evt);
     }
 });
 private void jMyTableKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
     if(evt.getKeyCode() == evt.VK_ENTER){
         evt.consume();
     }
 }
};

It's very important to consume the event during the keyPressed event and not during the other possible keyEvents not doing so will mean that you will consume the event once it's been triggered, so the Enter key will continue advancing one row.

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Comments in "Remove JTable's Enter Key behavior"

  • Avatar for Randolf Richardson
    Randolf Richardson
    2010-08-02 23:51
    This doesn't work. I've been trying to get JTable to behave properly (by not advancing the row when the user presses Enter), but this solution simply doesn't have this effect. Ditto for other solutions that Google found for me.
  • Avatar for Jay Pagnis
    Jay Pagnis
    2010-10-07 17:00
    Superb solution !! Programming Swing for years now and this has been my Achilles Heel !!
  • Avatar for Ian Cuyugan
    Ian Cuyugan
    2013-03-04 03:03
    Thank You Very Much!
  • Avatar for farihul rouf
    farihul rouf
    2015-01-11 02:12
    thanks so much
  • Avatar for Ismael
    Ismael
    2015-04-26 18:38
    It Works Perfect!

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