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How to Define Keyboard Inputs in HTML

How to Define Keyboard Inputs in HTML

Ferenc Almasi β€’ 2021 April 28 β€’ πŸ“– 1 min read
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If you want to define some text as a keyboard input, in a semantically meaningful way in HTML, you can use the less-known kbd tag:

<span>
    New updates available.
    Press <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>r</kbd> to reload.
</span>
kbd.html
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Everything you write inside it will be displayed with the browser's default monospace font. With some help of CSS, you can enrich it to get a look similar on GitHub:

kbd {
    padding: 3px 5px;
    font-size: 11px;
    line-height: 10px;
    color: #b1bac4;
    background-color: #0d1117;
    border-bottom-color: #6e7681;
    border: 1px solid #6e7681;
    border-radius: 6px;
    box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 #6e7681;
    vertical-align: middle;
}
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This will result in the following:

New updates available. Press ctrl+r to reload.

Regarding support, it is well supported in the latest version of major browsers, but not in older versions.

How to Define Keyboard Inputs in Text in HTML
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