Walk a chip set with the arrow keys

M3's chip keyboard table makes a set one tab stop that the arrows move
through; ten filter chips cost ten Tab presses today. The set now keeps a
roving tabindex — re-applied whenever a Livewire morph rewrites the chips
— and walks left, right, Home and End, following the writing direction.
The input chip's remove button also grows to a full 48x48 target, where
it was 34px wide.

Plan step 20, findings IN-13 and IN-14.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qwx5USif3wFFmxtHg5U1g9

resources/boost/skills/livewire-material-development/SKILL.md

@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ Props: `label` / slot, `icon`, `icon-right`, `elevated` (not on input chips), `d
 
 ### `<x-chip-set>`
 
-A row of chips 8px apart that wraps, as `role="group"`: `label` (shown, and names the group; otherwise pass `aria-label`), `hint`, `error-field` (a validation message for that property or its items replaces the hint), `scroll` (one line that scrolls sideways, fading the edge it can still scroll towards).
+A row of chips 8px apart that wraps, as `role="group"`: `label` (shown, and names the group; otherwise pass `aria-label`), `hint`, `error-field` (a validation message for that property or its items replaces the hint), `scroll` (one line that scrolls sideways, fading the edge it can still scroll towards). The set is one tab stop: the arrow keys move between the chips, Home and End go to the ends.
 
 ### `<x-form>`
 

resources/js/chips.js

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
  * A scrolling set marks the edges it can still scroll towards (`data-scroll-start`,
  * `data-scroll-end`), and the set fades those edges. Its row carries `wire:ignore.self`, so a
  * Livewire morph keeps the marks.
+ *
+ * A set is also one tab stop with a roving tabindex, and the arrow keys walk its controls, which is
+ * M3's chip keyboard table ("Arrows: moves focus between chips"; "only one chip can be in focus
+ * even though many can be selected"). Left and right follow the writing direction; the ring wraps,
+ * and Home and End go to its ends. The roving mark is re-applied whenever the set changes, because
+ * a Livewire morph rewrites the chips underneath it.
  */
 const CONTROLS = 'button:not(:disabled), a[href]:not([tabindex="-1"]), input:not(:disabled):not([type="hidden"])'
 
@@ -143,15 +149,82 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
             resize.observe(row)
             this.observers.push(() => resize.disconnect())
 
-            const mutation = new MutationObserver(mark)
+            const settle = () => {
-            mutation.observe(row, { childList: true, subtree: true })
+                mark()
+                this.rove()
+            }
+
+            const mutation = new MutationObserver(settle)
+            mutation.observe(row, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributeFilter: ['tabindex', 'disabled'] })
             this.observers.push(() => mutation.disconnect())
 
-            mark()
+            settle()
         },
 
         destroy() {
             this.observers.forEach((stop) => stop())
         },
+
+        /** Everything in the set the keyboard can reach, in the order it is written. */
+        controls() {
+            return [...this.$el.querySelectorAll(CONTROLS)]
+        },
+
+        /** One tab stop: the control focus is on, or the first one, is the only one Tab reaches. */
+        rove(focused = null) {
+            const controls = this.controls()
+
+            if (controls.length === 0) {
+                return
+            }
+
+            const current = (focused !== null && controls.includes(focused) ? focused : null) ?? controls.find((control) => control.tabIndex === 0) ?? controls[0]
+
+            // Only where it differs: the mutation observer watches tabindex, and writing it back
+            // every time would call this from its own changes.
+            for (const control of controls) {
+                const wanted = control === current ? 0 : -1
+
+                if (control.tabIndex !== wanted) {
+                    control.tabIndex = wanted
+                }
+            }
+        },
+
+        key(event) {
+            if (event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey || event.altKey) {
+                return
+            }
+
+            const controls = this.controls()
+            const index = controls.indexOf(document.activeElement)
+
+            if (controls.length === 0 || index === -1) {
+                return
+            }
+
+            const forwards = getComputedStyle(this.$el).direction === 'rtl' ? 'ArrowLeft' : 'ArrowRight'
+            const backwards = forwards === 'ArrowRight' ? 'ArrowLeft' : 'ArrowRight'
+
+            let next = null
+
+            if (event.key === forwards || event.key === 'ArrowDown') {
+                next = (index + 1) % controls.length
+            } else if (event.key === backwards || event.key === 'ArrowUp') {
+                next = (index - 1 + controls.length) % controls.length
+            } else if (event.key === 'Home') {
+                next = 0
+            } else if (event.key === 'End') {
+                next = controls.length - 1
+            }
+
+            if (next === null) {
+                return
+            }
+
+            event.preventDefault()
+            this.rove(controls[next])
+            controls[next].focus()
+        },
     }))
 })

resources/views/components/chip-set.blade.php

@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@
 
      `scroll` keeps the chips on one line that scrolls sideways, as M3 lays chips out on a narrow
      screen: the edge it can still scroll towards fades (resources/js/chips.js), and a chip reached
-     with Tab scrolls clear of the fade. Removing a focused input chip moves focus within the set. --}}
+     with Tab scrolls clear of the fade. Removing a focused input chip moves focus within the set.
+
+     The set is one tab stop and the arrow keys move between the chips inside it, with Home and End
+     at the ends — M3's chip keyboard table. Backspace and Delete still remove a focused input
+     chip. --}}
 
 @props([
     'label' => null,
@@ -42,13 +46,15 @@
         <div
             data-chip-set
             x-data="materialChipSet"
+            x-on:keydown="key($event)"
+            x-on:focusin="rove($event.target)"
             wire:ignore.self
             class="-mx-1.5 -my-2 flex scroll-px-6 gap-2 overflow-x-auto px-1.5 py-2 [scrollbar-width:none] [--chip-fade-end:0px] [--chip-fade-start:0px] data-scroll-end:[--chip-fade-end:1.5rem] data-scroll-start:[--chip-fade-start:1.5rem] [mask-image:linear-gradient(to_right,transparent,#000_var(--chip-fade-start),#000_calc(100%_-_var(--chip-fade-end)),transparent)] rtl:[mask-image:linear-gradient(to_left,transparent,#000_var(--chip-fade-start),#000_calc(100%_-_var(--chip-fade-end)),transparent)]"
         >
             {{ $slot }}
         </div>
     @else
-        <div data-chip-set class="flex flex-wrap gap-2">
+        <div data-chip-set x-data="materialChipSet" x-on:keydown="key($event)" x-on:focusin="rove($event.target)" class="flex flex-wrap gap-2">
             {{ $slot }}
         </div>
     @endif

resources/views/components/chip.blade.php

@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@
      Values from androidx Compose Material 3 (Chip.kt, AssistChipTokens, FilterChipTokens,
      InputChipTokens, SuggestionChipTokens at androidx/androidx 27cf9a7, Apache-2.0): 32px tall,
      small corner, label-large, 18px icons, 24px avatar; 16px padding beside a label, 8px beside an
-     icon, 8px between (an input chip: 12px, 8px, 4px beside an avatar). The check grows in on the
+     icon, 8px between (an input chip: 12px, 8px, 4px beside an avatar). The chip and the remove
-     fast spatial spring and fades in on the slow effects one; it shrinks on default effects and
+     button each catch presses over 48×48, which M3 asks for even though it means reaching past the
-     fades on fast effects, as AnimatingChipContent does. --}}
+     chip and over the label's own strip ("the target may extend beyond the visible chip
+     container"). The check grows in on the fast spatial spring and fades in on the slow effects
+     one; it shrinks on default effects and fades on fast effects, as AnimatingChipContent does. --}}
 
 @props([
     'type' => 'assist',
@@ -247,7 +249,7 @@
                     'relative me-1.75 grid size-4.5 shrink-0 place-items-center rounded-corner-full',
                     'cursor-pointer focus-visible:outline-3 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:outline-secondary' => ! $disabled,
                     'before:absolute before:-inset-0.75 before:rounded-corner-full before:bg-current before:opacity-0 before:transition-opacity before:duration-(--md-sys-motion-effects-fast-duration) before:ease-effects-fast hover:before:opacity-8 focus-visible:before:opacity-10 active:before:opacity-10' => ! $disabled,
-                    'after:absolute after:-inset-x-2 after:-inset-y-3.75',
+                    'after:absolute after:-inset-3.75',
                     'cursor-not-allowed' => $disabled,
                 ])
             >

tests/Feature/Components/ChipTest.php

@@ -186,7 +186,9 @@ it('gives a removable input chip a named remove button that calls wire:remove',
         ->toContain('wire:click="removeRecipient(3)"')
         ->toContain('x-on:click="removeChip($event)"')
         ->toContain('<input type="hidden" name="to[]" value="3" />')
-        ->toContain('ps-2.75 pe-2');
+        ->toContain('ps-2.75 pe-2')
+        // 18px icon, 15px out on every side: M3's 48dp minimum for the close icon's target.
+        ->toContain('after:absolute after:-inset-3.75');
 });
 
 it('runs an Alpine remove expression, or takes the chip off the page with neither', function () {
@@ -219,10 +221,13 @@ it('groups chips in a wrapping row named by its label, with a hint', function ()
 
     expect($html)
         ->toContain('role="group"')
-        ->toContain('data-chip-set class="flex flex-wrap gap-2"')
+        ->toContain('data-chip-set x-data="materialChipSet"')
+        ->toContain('flex flex-wrap gap-2')
+        // M3's chip keyboard: the set is one tab stop and the arrows walk it.
+        ->toContain('x-on:keydown="key($event)"')
+        ->toContain('x-on:focusin="rove($event.target)"')
         ->toContain("id=\"{$labelledBy[1]}\" class=\"mb-2 type-label-lg text-on-surface-variant\">File types</p>")
-        ->toContain("id=\"{$describedBy[1]}\" class=\"mt-1 type-body-sm text-on-surface-variant\">Show only these</p>")
+        ->toContain("id=\"{$describedBy[1]}\" class=\"mt-1 type-body-sm text-on-surface-variant\">Show only these</p>");
-        ->not->toContain('materialChipSet');
 });
 
 it('scrolls a chip set on one line with fading edges', function () {