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Description
Describe the problem
In addition to the mouse, the Arduino IDE UI can be navigated using the keyboard. A UI element is first selected, then interacted with. In order to provide a visual indication of the navigation progress, the selected element should be highlighted.
🐛 Some drop-down menus are not highlighted when selected. This makes keyboard navigation of these views inconvenient.
- Boards Manager view
- Type menu
- version menus
- Library Manager view
- Type menu
- Topic menu
- version menus
- WiFi101 / WiFiNINA Firmware Updater dialog
- Select Board menu
- Select firmware version
- Upload SSL Root Certificates dialog
- Select destination board and upload certificate menu
- Serial Monitor view
- Line ending menu
- Baud rate menu
To reproduce
- Press the Ctrl+Shift+I keyboard shortcut to open the "Library Manager" view.
🙂 The first UI element of the view ("Filter your search..." field) is highlighted:

- Press the Tab key to navigate to the next UI element ("Type" drop-down menu).
🐛 The UI element is not highlighted:
Expected behavior
Selected UI elements are always highlighted.
Arduino IDE version
Operating system
Windows
Operating system version
10
Additional context
The drop-down menus in the Preferences dialog are highlighted when selected:
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- I searched for previous reports in the issue tracker
- I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
- My report contains all necessary details
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topic: codeRelated to content of the project itselfRelated to content of the project itselftype: imperfectionPerceived defect in any part of projectPerceived defect in any part of project

