Checkbox: shift+click
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Description
#### Bug, feature request, or proposal:
Bug
#### What is the expected behavior?
By holding down the shift key and clicking a checkbox this should checked.
#### What is the current behavior?
The checkbox is not marked only shows the ripple effect.
#### What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?
I would like to implement a Gmail-style checkbox.
#### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?
Material: 2.0.0-beta.8
Angular: 4.3.2
TypeScript: 2.4.2
Chrome
#### Is there anything else we should know?
[https://material.angular.io/components/checkbox/examples](https://material.angular.io/components/checkbox/examples)
In Safari it works.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the Angular Material checkbox examples and reproduce the shift-click behavior in Chrome using the versions listed in the issue. Trace the checkbox interaction handling to determine why only the ripple appears; done means shift-click marks the checkbox as expected without regressing ordinary clicks.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100