Kbd element

As explained in Web Design Playground, Second Edition

The HTML kbd element marks text representing keyboard input or other user input.

How Web Design Playground, Second Edition covers it

How deep it goes

Defines the element and its common monospace rendering, without detailing browser behavior or styling internals.

Examples

Uses Helvetica as typed input and Enter as a pressed-key example.

What you can do after

Apply it by marking keyboard commands and other user-entered values in HTML.

How it connects

Connects keyboard input with user input, voice commands, and monospace text rendering.

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Related concepts

• inputuses · An input is a value, information, or signal supplied to a system, computation, or interface for processing or to influence its behavior.
• browseruses · A web browser is software that retrieves, interprets, and renders web resources, executes supported web content, and enables interaction with web pages and applications.

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