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Post February 19th, 2009, 4:29 am

HI I was looking on wikipedia and noticed that they have a shortcut options for the website see what I mean have a look at the edit page and logo and you will see wikipedia.org How is this done because it would be nice to do it on you site it that said I have not seen it any ware else so maybe its hard to do?
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Post February 19th, 2009, 7:01 am

i think you are talking about accesskey? If that's so then it's easy. Just put this code
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<a href="some_links" accesskey="2">link_name</a>
 
  1.  
  2. <a href="some_links" accesskey="2">link_name</a>
  3.  


that accesskey is responsible for shortcuts
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Post February 19th, 2009, 11:46 am

so I would just hit the number 2 and go to (in you example) some_links?
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Post February 20th, 2009, 7:40 am

tastysite wrote:
so I would just hit the number 2 and go to (in you example) some_links?



it happens with mobile devices,pda etc. but dont know about keyboards.

it's better to check up with w3c.
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Post February 20th, 2009, 9:42 am

Got it working but in crome you press alt+1 and in IE you press alt+1+ENTER why o why can it never be easy?! :roll:
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