Recorder’s shortcuts are contextual: first move focus to the side panel, in-page controls, or session viewer, then use the keys listed for that control. Recorder does not register a Chrome-wide shortcut to open the panel, start or stop recording, or take a screenshot.

Use Tab and Shift+Tab to move between controls. Use Enter or Space to activate the focused button, tab, or button-like evidence row unless a more specific behavior is listed below. Use Space to toggle a focused checkbox.

During recording

In-page controls

Focus	Keys	Result
Move controls grip	Enter or Space	Open the menu for docking the controls to an edge. Press the same key again to close it.
Dock menu	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Move through the four edge choices, wrapping at either end.
Dock menu	Home or End	Move to the first or last edge choice.
Dock menu	Escape	Close the menu and return focus to Move controls.
Dock menu	Tab	Close the menu and continue to the next focusable control.
Area screenshot overlay	Escape	Cancel the area selection without creating the screenshot.

The focused Capture, Area, Panel, Stop, and close controls use the usual Enter or Space activation. There is no single-key screenshot or stop command when focus is elsewhere.

Side panel setup

Focus	Keys	Result
Issue lookup	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Move through the visible issue suggestions.
Issue lookup	Enter	Choose the highlighted suggestion. When no suggestion is highlighted, the stopped-session lookup uses the typed ID.
Issue lookup	Escape	Close the suggestions without choosing one.
Explore / Test case / Verify fix choices	Any arrow key	Select and focus the previous or next session type, wrapping at the ends.
Result choices	Any arrow key	Select and focus the previous or next available result, wrapping at the ends.
Additional MIME type field	Enter	Add the typed value to the capture-rule list.
Open MIME type list	Escape	Close the list and return focus to its button.
Send-menu arrow	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Open the destination menu and focus an item.
Send destination menu	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Move through destinations, wrapping at either end.
Send destination menu	Home or End	Move to the first or last destination.
Send destination menu	Escape	Close the menu and return focus to its arrow.
Send destination menu	Tab	Close the menu and continue through the page.

Session-type, result, stopped-session lookup, and send-destination controls depend on the selected session type and project.

Move around the session viewer

Tabs, search, and history

Focus	Keys	Result
Viewer tab row	Left Arrow or Right Arrow	Open the previous or next viewer tab, wrapping at either end.
Viewer tab row	Home or End	Open the first or last viewer tab.
Viewer content, outside an input or button	/	Focus the current view’s search field when it has one.
Evidence list, outside an open disclosure	Escape	Clear that view’s active filters. An open menu or popup handles Escape first instead.
Viewer content, outside a text field	Alt+Left Arrow or Alt+Right Arrow	Move backward or forward through evidence you opened inside the viewer. On macOS, the Alt key is labelled Option.
Divider between an evidence list and its detail	Left Arrow or Right Arrow	Make the list pane narrower or wider in 24-pixel steps.

The history shortcut does not run while focus is in an input, text area, select control, or editable region, so it does not interfere with editing.

Evidence lists

Focus	Keys	Result
Network or Timeline row	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Focus and open the adjacent row. The list stops at its first and last row.
Console row	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Focus and open the adjacent row.
Console row	Enter or Space	Open the row’s detail.
Request or log nested under an action	Enter or Space	Open that related evidence beside the action.
Annotatable action, request, log, or field	Right-click, or Control-click on macOS	Open the field actions. Choose Pin to mark the evidence without a comment, or Note to write one. If you selected part of a value first, Recorder uses that selection as the note excerpt.
Annotatable evidence field	Shift+F10 or the Context Menu key	Open the same Pin, Note, and available privacy actions without using a pointer.
Open field-action panel	Escape	Close it and return focus to the field.

Buttons and button-like rows elsewhere in Actions, Screenshots & Attachments, Notes, Tests, and Overview use Enter or Space. On a narrow window, activating a row also opens its detail pane; arrowing through a list only changes the selected row.

On macOS, use Control-click, not Command-click, for the contextual field actions. Command-click is not assigned to Pin or Note.

Edit session content

Focus	Keys	Result
Title	Enter	Save the edited title and leave the field.
Title	Escape	Restore the current saved title and leave the field.
Action-name editor	Escape	Cancel the rename and return focus to Rename.
Delete-action confirmation	Escape	Cancel deletion and return focus to Delete.
Description editor	Tab	Indent the current line or selected lines.
Description editor	Shift+Tab	Remove one indentation level from the current line or selected lines.
Description editor	Escape, then Tab	Let the next Tab leave the editor. Typing another non-modifier key restores Tab indentation.
Add or Improve menu button	Down Arrow	Open the menu and focus its first item.
Open Description menu	Up Arrow or Down Arrow	Move through items, wrapping at either end.
Open Description menu	Home or End	Move to the first or last item.
Open Description menu	Escape	Close the menu and return focus to its button.
Open Description menu	Tab	Close the menu and continue through the page.

Privacy preview

Focus	Keys	Result
Source or record row	Enter or Space	Open that source or record.
Privacy search	Escape	Clear the search text when it is not empty.
Expanded original-value control	Escape	Collapse the original value.

Enter and Space open the same record that a pointer click opens; the keys do not change whether a value is hidden or visible in the export.

Keyboard actions in the application under test

Recorder does not reserve the application’s shortcuts. During recording it captures Enter, Escape, and Tab; shortcuts that combine another key with Control, Meta (such as Command on macOS), or Alt/Option; supported slider keys; and supported arrow-key movement in tabs, menus, list boxes, and similar widgets. It can also capture an unmodified printable shortcut when the page handles it outside a text-entry or sensitive field.

A held key is recorded once rather than once per repeat. Recorder does not record a modifier pressed by itself as a meaningful action. When reviewing keyboard evidence, turn Key actions only off in Actions because that filter hides keydown events.

For the full Viewer workflow, see Open the session viewer. For captured-key limits and protected values, see Capture support and limits and How redaction works.