Dear developers

I would like to see an easy way to have straight forward navigation / edit / save operations in radgrid the way it works for MS Access grids. When working in MS Access grid the record automatically gets dirty on edit, has an easy cancel by ESC button, and auto-saves without any trouble when moving to the next record. The way it works in MS Access is until 2018 still hard to find in a web-control. I managed to use the batch edit and have a kind of auto save when moving to the next record. but it is a pain because the postback action results in loosing the focus on the field you navigated to. 

Why is it so hard to built what the MS boys (the old guys did great work) already built ages ago. Its about time that our web controls behave like old fashioned windows fat client controls.

Please don't lean behind, thinking that all is fine now. its not, a lot can be improved and made easier to handle and give user better user experience.

When I look at the current NEW / UPDATES for ASP.NET Ajax Controls it make me cry to see that its apparently put aside as FINISHED. Wake up, improve more or give a clear roadmap for future developments. Progress should not loose focus on the Telerik ASP.NET Ajax toolbox because that one is still a major tool for the coming 5-10 years I expect.

When the Grid has  <HeaderContextMenu> in the Markup and there is no explicitly set RenderMode of the Grid, the Grid is rendered in Classic. 
It also happens if there is a reference to the ContextMenu in the code behind.

Reproduction steps: 
<script>    
    function f() {
        //code 
        alert($find("RadGrid1")._renderMode);
        Sys.Application.remove_load(f);
    }
    Sys.Application.add_load(f);
</script>
<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server" >  
    <HeaderContextMenu></HeaderContextMenu>         
</telerik:RadGrid>

Solutions: 
1. Remove the HeaderContextMenu tag

2. Set the RenderMode of the Grid explicitly

If the Chrome browser zoom is different from 100%, it is not possible to reorder the RadGrid columns.

The problem can be reproduced at https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/columns-rows/columns/column-row-resize-reorder/defaultcs.aspx .

Alternating Row style of RadGrid is not applied when using Bootstrap skin.

Steps to reproduce:
For all other Skins these approaches work:
        div.RadGrid tr.rgAltRow {
            background-color: aqua;
        }

Or:
 <AlternatingItemStyle BackColor="Aqua" />

The reason probably is because there is >td directive built-in, which needs to be overridden manually in order for the styling to take effect (this works):
        div.RadGrid tr.rgAltRow > td {
            background-color: aqua;
        }


A possible workaround for this issue is available in the following forum post:
https://www.telerik.com/forums/alternatingitemstyle-5e16887f3085#odVQBomUikiIJfrxeBQrww

For keyboard users who don't have a specific Context Menu key (see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key), they typically need to use the Windows standard SHIFT+F10 hotkey to trigger a contextmenu event.

For example:

1.	In IE, load http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/columns-rows/columns/context-menu/defaultcs.aspx
2.	Tab to a column header link
3.	Press SHIFT+F10 (standard Windows/IE hotkey to open context menu)
4.	Notice the context menu displays, however, the focus is really on the IE menubar. IE supports F10 to open the menubar, but is also seeing SHIFT+F10 too.

Or
1.	In FireFox, load http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/columns-rows/columns/context-menu/defaultcs.aspx
2.	Tab to a column header link
3.	Press SHIFT+F10 (standard Windows/IE hotkey to open context menu) then press down arrow
4.	Notice the context menu displays, however, the focus is really on FireFox's application system menu in the upper left.

Chrome does not have this issue - it opens the grid context menu only.
We need IE and FireFox to also only open the grid's context menu, and not trigger default browser behavior.

According to https://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/event/contextmenu.html, it is possible to correct this behavior by calling event.preventDefault() when SHIFT+F10 is pressed, but then trigger a synthetic contextmenu event anyway.

As a workaround, we know users can press Escape to close the browser's default menu and bring focus back into the HTML document (and thus the grid's context menu), but this throws off the user experience and becomes a training issue.

Auto-Fit column width when exporting to excel using Format="Xlsx"

 I'd really like to have the columns automatically adjust to fit the width of the content.

A workaround is to take the header border color and set it to all rows 

- Default skin
           .RadGrid_Default .rgRow > td,
            .RadGrid_Default .rgAltRow > td {
                border-left-color: rgb(130, 130, 130);
            }


- BlackMetroTouch skin

            .RadGrid_BlackMetroTouch .rgRow > td,
            .RadGrid_BlackMetroTouch .rgAltRow > td {
                border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
            }

            .RadGrid_BlackMetroTouch .rgRow > td,
            .RadGrid_BlackMetroTouch .rgAltRow > td {
                border-bottom-width: 0px; /*remove extra space between rows that becomes visible when you put on borders for alt rows*/
            }


- WebBlue skin

            .RadGrid_WebBlue .rgRow > td,
            .RadGrid_WebBlue .rgAltRow > td
            {
                border-left-color: rgb(69, 95, 119);
            }

Hi

Could we have an "export to excel functionality" in "rad grid" to 
a "predefined formatted excel file".
So my excel exported file wont loose the formatting.
Thanks

The navigation icons are not readable in mobile Grid in MetroTouch.

Video: https://goo.gl/TrzZ0m

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open this demo:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/mobile-examples/overview/default.aspx?skin=MetroTouch

Result: the Navigation icons are white

radgrid exporttoexcel and all exports (word, pdf, csv, excel) should be able to export to file on server without the browser also sending the file to the client.

Hi,

Currently JAWS user cannot use the arrow keys to select a filter operator. Please enable arrow keys support to filter context menu for JAWS user. 
Refer Telerik support ticket - 1081707 for more information.

Regards
Kishor

When I'm having an accessibility tool like JAWS read the numerical pager (see screenshot attached), it reads: "1 : Link", "2 : Link" etc. (and "Dot dot dot : Link" for any GridLinkButton with that text.)

I want it to read a custom message, like "Go to page {0:D}", for the numerical pager GridLinkButtons, either in the corresponding GridLinkButton's title or aria-label attribute. The custom text should preferably be retrieved from GlobalResources.

I also want to be able to provide a separate, customizable title/aria-label text for the [...] GridLinkButtons, too.

For details see support ticket #1068383.

Hi,

Our Accessibility partner while evaluating our product for 508 compliance we got one report saying RadGrid control is not accessible. We do have enablearia attribute on the radgrid and is emitting the aria-attributes as mentioned in your demo. 
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/accessibility-and-internationalization/wai-aria-support/defaultcs.aspx

As per them : "So it does not alert the user that arrow keys may be used to navigate it".
I have attached a snippet of their report regarding radgrid accessibility. Can you please let me know if anything is missing.
Thanks and best regards,
Mirang

In Telerik version 2016.2.607.45, the RadGrid Excel Like Filtering Context Menu Style is Broken. The width and alignment is not 100%. When I drop the older Telerik.Web.UI dll and corresponding Skins dll in my project, the issue is gone. I have attached two images, one from the latest release, and one from the older version. You can see how the latest versions style breaks and does not show the menu correctly.