Add keyboard shortcuts to your website

By using a simple tag in your HTML, you can make it possible for your visitors to use keyboard shortcuts on your site.

Here is how:

Let´s say you want to implement a link to The IT Community and it should load whenever someone presses ALT+g (for Firefox, for other browsers see below).

Use the following code in the body part of your site:

<a href="http://www.theitcommunity.com" accesskey="G">www.theitcommunity.com</a>

Just be sure to add a description to your page so that your visitors about this new feature.

Unfortunately every browser behaves differently:

• Internet Explorer: Alt + Accesskey + Enter

• Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape: Alt + Accesskey

• Firefox Version 2.0 and up: Alt + Shift + Accesskey

• Opera: Shift + Esc + Accesskey