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Accesskey in HTML5

How to specify a shortcut key to focus an element in HTML5?

By using accesskey attribute we can specify a shortcut key to focus an element.

<form action="attributes.htm" method="post">
        <p>Name: <input type="text" name="t1" id="Text1" required /></p>
        <p>Age: <input type="text" name="t2" id="t1" accesskey="m" /> (press alt+m to bring focus here)</p>

        <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>

       <input type="submit"  value="Submit to different page" 
              formenctype="text/plain" formmethod="get" formnovalidate 
              formaction="MyPage.aspx" formtarget="_blank" />
</form>

In the above code snippet we have given accesskey attribute to the Age group <input> element with ID "t1". In the output if we click the shortcut key "alt + m" the focus comes directly to age group <input> elment.

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