Hi,
Im pretty new with MDN and ive only recently started editing documents on the site. I was wondering if there are any shortcut keys I might want to know about.
For example, an alternative to scrolling to the top/bottom of the document in edit mode when wanting to publish;
Hi!
It would be good to document these somewhere!
Off the top of my head:
Are there any other obvious ones I’ve missed, oldschool MDN editors? (@sheppy @jswisher @fscholz @wbamberg @teoli )
It’d be good to turn this into a proper resource.
We have a guide to the MDN editor UI, but it doesn’t include keyboard shortcuts. There is a list of default shortcuts in the CKEditor docs. We can definitely add a list of our actual shortcuts. I suspect @sheppy is the heaviest user of them, and/or most knowledgeable about what we have defined.
Yup. I wrote that list ages ago. 
It looks like we’ve swapped the meaning of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Shift-S since it was last updated. I’ll verify the others as well.
I see, thank you for your help.
December 12
As it turns out a list of
keyboard shortcuts for the MDN editor UI already exists.
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We have a guide to the
MDN editor UI, but it doesn’t include keyboard shortcuts. There is a list of
default shortcuts in the CKEditor docs. We can definitely add a list of our actual shortcuts. I suspect
@sheppy is the heaviest user of them, and/or most knowledgeable about what we have defined.
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The only other significant change I found is that the editor no longer supports the H6 heading level in either the toolbar or shortcuts.
Ah great stuff. I do wonder if it needs to be linked to in more places/exposed a bit better. When I started answering this thread I spent a fair amount of time searching for it, and could not find it for love nor money.
It’s in an article entitled “Edit box of the MDN Editor UI”, rather than “Keyboard shortcuts of MDN Editor UI”, which would be more findable. There isn’t really much to say about the edit box, other than that you edit content in it, and can use these shortcuts. I’ll take a to-do to think about changing the name, and the ripple effects on the Guide that it’s part of.
Great stuff, thanks Janet.
@jswisher Another option would be to add a page called “MDN editor keyboard shortcuts” or similar, and move the content there, then transclude it back into the original location for convenience. That way we have both. Double win!
I moved the intro paragraph about the Edit box into the Editor UI elements, retitled what used to the “Edit box” article, and linked to it from the new Edit box section. Now the retitled Keyboard shortcuts shows up under that name in the Editor landing page, where people are slightly more likely to find it.
Thanks folks — this is much better.
