Template:Keypress
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Template imported from English Wikipedia. Original documentation at wikipedia:Template:Key_press/doc
This is the {{key press}} template primarily designed to illustrate keys and keystrokes on a computer keyboard. With additional parameters, a single template can even illustrate a combination of multiple simultaneous keystrokes. A sequence of keystrokes, on the other hand, need to be demonstrated with separate templates.
Example:
{{key press|A}}produces
A
Keystroke combinations[edit source]
To illustrate keystroke combinations, just use extra parameters:
{{key press|Alt|P}}produces
Alt+ P
{{key press|Ctrl|Alt|Del}}produces
Ctrl+ Alt+ Del
This template currently handles up to 5 key name parameters, which should be more than enough to accommodate for any possible combination of simultaneous keystrokes. If it gets too many key name parameters it reports the page into Category:Wikipedia keypress template parameter needs fixing. This means we can easily find those pages and fix them, or we can discover if we need to make this template take more parameters.
When you feed several key names to this template, it adds a "+" with no spaces around. This means it won't line wrap. But when you show key combinations for instance in a table then that might cause too wide items. Then instead manually build the key combination with spaces around the "+" so it can line wrap. Like this:
{{key press|Ctrl}} + {{key press|Alt}} + {{key press|Del}}produces
Ctrl + Alt + Del
On the other hand, to illustrate Windows Alt codes you might want to use separate templates with no intervening punctuation or space. In most Windows systems in North America and Western Europe, for example, the plus-minus sign (±) can be entered by holding down the Alt key while typing 0177 (with the numeric keypad). This could be illustrated like this:
{{key press|Alt|0}}{{key press|1}}{{key press|7}}{{key press|7}}produces
Alt+ 0 1 7 7
Wikilinks[edit source]
If there is an article about the key you can wikilink the key's name like any other wiki text. Like this:
{{key press|[[Alt key|Alt]]}}produces
Alt
If you are wikilinking the keys, please ensure that you are piping to the correct page (e.g. [[Control key|Ctrl]] instead of [[Ctrl]], which leads to a disambiguation page).
Wiki markup characters[edit source]
Some wiki markup character, like the pipe symbol, the semicolon and the equals sign, need to be entered using the {{!}}, {{;}} and {{=}} templates:
{{key press|{{!}}}}produces
|
{{key press|{{;}}}}produces
Template:;
{{key press|{{=}}}}produces
=
However, if the characters are marked as wikilinks, they can be entered as such:
{{key press|[[|]]}}produces
|
{{key press|[[;]]}}produces
;
{{key press|[[=]]}}produces
=
If you don't want to mark the characters as links, {{key press|<nowiki>|</nowiki>}} is also an option.
Key symbols[edit source]
Some key names have a fitting Unicode character. This template automatically adds such "icons" to the following key names:
{{key press|Shift}}produces
Template:Unicode Shift
{{key press|Caps Lock}}produces
Template:Unicode Caps Lock
{{key press|Enter}}produces
Template:Unicode Enter
{{key press|Tab}}produces
Tab Template:Unicode
{{key press|Backspace}}produces
← Backspace
{{key press|Cmd}}produces
Template:Unicode Cmd
{{key press|Opt}}produces
Template:Unicode Opt
{{key press|Up}}produces
↑
{{key press|Down}}produces
↓
{{key press|Left}}produces
←
{{key press|Right}}produces
→
There are no characters for the Windows key and Menu key. Besides, the Windows logo is trademarked. So this template shows approximate characters for them in the following way:
{{key press|Win}}produces
Template:Unicode Win
{{key press|Menu}}produces
Template:Unicode Menu
Video games[edit source]
Video game controllers often have specialized input labels that do not map easily. The following are mappings for various game consoles and input features.
Directional input[edit source]
The following should only be used when the input sequence uses something other than the primary input or mixes input between directional devices.
{{key press|l-down}}produces
L↓
{{key press|c-left}}produces
C←
{{key press|r-up}}produces
R↑
Stick specific diagonals are also supported:
{{key press|l-nw}}produces
L↖
{{key press|c-se}}produces
C↘
{{key press|r-ne}}produces
R↗
PlayStation[edit source]
{{key press|ex}}produces
Template:Unicode
{{key press|circle}}produces
Template:Unicode
{{key press|triangle}}produces
Template:Unicode
{{key press|square}}produces
Template:Unicode
Technical details[edit source]
This template calls {{key press/core}}, which holds the code that otherwise would be repeated several times in {{key press}}, thus simplifying the code.
See also[edit source]
Template:Var/seealso
Not to be confused with[edit source]
{{Button}}– Produces a similar visual effect, but without the semantic markup, e.g. Template:Button.