Hello Nate,

Thank you for providing a video!

I have been looking into it and in an effort to reproduce this, I created this minimal sample in StackBlitz. There is added logic to set a target cell in edit mode once the dialog is opened. I am unaware if the approach I am using corresponds to the one you have adopted for this, nevertheless, I was able to reproduce the reported behavior with the following code:

<igx-dialog

  <!-- -->

  (opened)="onDialogOpenedHandler($event, grid1)"

> 

public onDialogOpenedHandler(
    event: IDialogEventArgs,
    grid: IgxGridComponent
  ) {
    const myCell = grid.getCellByColumn(0, 'name');
    myCell.editMode = true;
  }

 

After further investigation, I determined that the observed is due to the fact that programmatically setting a cell into edit mode like this does not indicate to the grid that the same should also be the active cell. My suggestion is to apply the following method to indicate to the grid’s navigation service that the active node should be set to the target row and column indexes:

  const myCell = grid.getCellByColumn(0, 'name');
    myCell.editMode = true;
    grid.navigation.setActiveNode({
      row: myCell.row.index,
      column: myCell.column.index,
    });

This approach is applied in the above referenced sample. Please, check it out on your side and let me know if it helps resolve the issue.

Best regards,
Bozhidara Pachilova
Associate Software Developer