How to disable tab stop on a stackpanel

Question

I have a stackpanel that keeps getting focus when I tab around in the application.

Using snoop I can see that the stackpanel has a ContentControl which has a ContentPresenter. It is the ContentControl that gets the focus. How can I disable this? And why is this default behavior?

Strangury

A StackPanel shouldn't be able to get focus unless you set Focusable="True" (default is False). Where is this StackPanel located, Window/UserControl, ItemsControl? – Seclusion

What happens when you set Focusable="False" on the ContentControl? – Embolden

Answer 1

This is not the default behavior, if it has been overwritten by some resource then you can reset it with

KeyboardNavigation.IsTabStop="False"

Or alternatively...

FocusManager.IsFocusScope="False"

Sleuth

What is the difference between these two approaches? – Petrozavodsk

FocusManager.IsFocusScope="False" didn't work for me but KeyboardNavigation.IsTabStop="False" did – Norwood

Answer 2

Had a similar issue with a DataTemplate that was using a StackPanel as container. The DataTemplate was then used for ListBox items. None of the suggestions worked for me to prevent the items from receiving tab stops, until I used the following on the actual listbox:

KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation="None"

Honey

Or by code behind: KeyboardNavigation.SetTabNavigation(control, KeyboardNavigationMode.None); – Squireen

How do you do that in UWP? Says "not supported" – Wappes