mdc-text-field in mdc-menu doesn't accept spaces

[QJan84]

See #2422 (closed)

I have the same problem.
I have an input (free user input) in a MDCSelect menu and can also enter here no space.

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[williamernest]

@QJan84 The material menu is not designed to contain input elements. It's designed to allow you to make a single selection from a list. We disable the space key event to prevent inadvertent scrolling of the page while interacting with the menu.

[al-pt-old]

Ohh... Guys...

[acdvorak]

Thanks for filing this issue!

Sadly this is not a use case we can support right now 😢

The problem is that the current menu component assumes it only contains list items, which are selected with the Space key. So it needs to prevent the browser's default behavior of scrolling the page when the Space key is pressed in order to improve UX.

We would love to find a way to allow clients to customize that behavior, but doing so would require a substantial rewrite of the menu component, and unfortunately we don't have the resources to do that right now.

(FYI, the "select" component was simplified to use a native <select> element in #2462.)