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Menus

The keyboard operations in this table apply to menu bars, drop-down menus, submenus, contextual menus, menu items, radio button menu items, and checkbox menu items. For a discussion of menus, see Chapter 9.

In the Java 2 SDK, contextual menus cannot be posted from the keyboard.

**Table 20** Keyboard Operations for Menus
Keyboard Operation	Action
F10	Moves focus to menu bar and posts first menu
Shift-F10	Displays contextual menu
Right arrow and left arrow	Navigates right or left among titles in menu bar, posting current menu, displaying submenus (right arrow), and navigating back from submenu to higher-level menu
Up arrow	Navigates within menus, displaying submenus
Down arrow	Navigates within menus, moving to the next item without displaying a submenu
Enter, Return, spacebar	Activates menu item, dismisses menu, and goes to last window item that had focus
Escape	Dismisses menu without taking action and returns focus to last component that had focus; when in submenu, dismisses submenu and returns to higher-level drop-down or contextual menu