Preventing tab key to navigate in widget buttons

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello !

I’m currently working on an inventory system. I just made simple buttons and texts.
I open my inventory with “Tab”. But when I click on a button and press tab, it just highlight buttons (like on window).
I have to click somewhere else to be able to close the inventory with “Tab” again.

  • I read that changing “Render focus rule” to Never in the project settings might be the solution, but it doesn’t work.

Can you help me ? :slight_smile:
Thank you.

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I can help you maybe disabling input on tab press then on release enable it again, might work idk… I doubt it though.

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Yeah I don’t think it’s gonna work. If I could just deactivate the Tab/Arrows navigation option that would be great :confused:

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I had a similiar problem.
Fixed it by adding the node “Set Focus to Game Viewport” when pressing the tab key.
This will put the focus back on your viewport.

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When you open/create widget you need to focus it. Also, uncheck all “Focusable” on child widget that you do not need.

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Thanks a lot ! It worked ! x)

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Thanks. Worked for me! :slight_smile:

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When you open/create widget you need to focus it. Also, uncheck all “Focusable” on child widget that you do not need.

THANK YOU!
I select all widget buttons and in details panel unchecked “Is Focusable”. Solve my problem. UE5.5

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read many solutions, only it worked for my project. TY

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Hi, to disable navigation at all (or to modify it), you can use this C++ code:

	TSharedRef<FNavigationConfig> navigation_config = MakeShared<FNavigationConfig>();
	navigation_config->bTabNavigation = false;
	navigation_config->bKeyNavigation = false;
	navigation_config->bAnalogNavigation = false;
	FSlateApplication::Get().SetNavigationConfig(navigation_config);