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Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 3: All-Inclusive Edition

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Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 3: All-Inclusive Edition
Version
1.3
Author
OASIS DITA Technical Committee

The shortcut element identifies a keyboard shortcut for a menu or window action. This element is part of the DITA user interface domain, a special set of DITA elements designed to document user interface tasks, concepts and reference information.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

+ topic/keyword ui-d/shortcut

Example

This example:

<menucascade>
 <uicontrol>Start</uicontrol>
 <uicontrol><shortcut>P</shortcut>rograms</uicontrol>
</menucascade>

May produce output similar to the following: Start > Programs

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group, outputclass, and keyref.