Friday, June 28, 2002

Day 15: Defining keyboard shortcuts

Mark Pilgrim

One of the least known features of HTML is the accesskey attribute for links and forms, which allows the web designer to define keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used links or form fields. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

[For Radio users,] simply add an accesskey attribute to the link, like this:

<a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>" accesskey="1"><%siteName%></a>

Hmm, "least known" is for sure - I've never even heard of doing this. Makes sense though. I try to minimize my use of the mouse in most applications, but it's almost unavoidable when browsing. Yeah, I can tab through the links, but who wants to do that?

OK, I added an accesskey attribute to the link to my home page.

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