The ContextMenu widget supports navigating from one item to another using the up/down arrow keys. If an item is focused, it receives the "k-state-focused" class and highlights the item visually. However, as soon as this or any other item is hovered, all focus classes are removed and therefore the highlight disappears. When pressing the arrow keys again, it reappears again, but the focus always starts moving from the hovered item instead of the most recently focused item.

This behavior can be reproduced in the following DOJO: https://dojo.telerik.com/ACIpeYIm

• Open the contextMenu
• Press the "arrow down" key until e.g. "Item 4" is focused
• Hover e.g. "Item 2" with your mouse, but do not click anything (now the focus disappears)
• Press the "arrow down" key again (now "Item 3" is focused, although "Item 5" would be expected to be focused)

Unfortunately, we currently don't really see any way to fix this without directly modifying Kendo code or rebuilding the entire keyboard navigation ourselves, because the contextMenu keyboard navigation does not seem to set the DOM focus at all, but works with CSS-classes only.

Do you have any suggestions?