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HTMLElement: accessKeyLabel property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The HTMLElement.accessKeyLabel read-only property returns a string containing the element's browser-assigned access key (if any); otherwise it returns an empty string.

Example

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JavaScript

const btn = document.getElementById("btn1");
const shortcutLabel = btn.accessKeyLabel || btn.accessKey;
btn.title += ` [${shortcutLabel.toUpperCase()}]`;

btn.onclick = () => {
  const feedback = document.createElement("output");
  feedback.textContent = "Pressed!";
  btn.insertAdjacentElement("afterend", feedback);
};

HTML

<button accesskey="h" title="Caption" id="btn1">Hover me</button>

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
accessKeyLabel No No 8 No 14 No 8 No 14 No No 14

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/accessKeyLabel