# Keyboard shortcuts not working in editor?

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Created:** [July 14, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523 "2023-07-14T15:15:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ericp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@ericp](https://community.weweb.io/u/ericp)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523/1 "2023-07-14T15:15:06Z")

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For some reason using keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste elements in the editor aren’t working for me. I’m using Chrome on a PC if that matter. Minor annoyance, but wondering if anyone has had same issue and knows of a fix?

TIA

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**Author:** ![dorilama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/dorilama/32/10403_2.png) [@dorilama](https://community.weweb.io/u/dorilama)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523/2 "2023-07-14T15:56:43Z")

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Make sure that you select an element that will be the sibling of the pasted element, otherwise it will not work.

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**Author:** ![what.gift](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/what.gift/32/8069_2.png) [@what.gift](https://community.weweb.io/u/what.gift)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523/3 "2024-03-14T16:42:33Z")

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This keeps randomly happening to me too. Shortcuts work for most of the time, but then stop.

**CRTL + D** for example, reverts to chrome’s shortcut and saves the page as a bookmark!

I’d love to know how to control and stop this behaviour.

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**Author:** ![aurelie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/aurelie/32/13249_2.png) [@aurelie](https://community.weweb.io/u/aurelie)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523/4 "2024-03-14T17:52:29Z")

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We recently discover a bug that disable shortcut after editing a component by double clicking.  
It has been fixed, but not released yet.  
Can you try to check if this happen to you on this situation?  
A workaround (to wait the fix) is to select from the iframe and not from the Layout panel

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**Author:** ![what.gift](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/what.gift/32/8069_2.png) [@what.gift](https://community.weweb.io/u/what.gift)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/keyboard-shortcuts-not-working-in-editor/3523/5 "2024-03-14T19:17:44Z")

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Hi. Ah ok! I’ve just tried what you mentioned and it’s not happened. However, just now I solved it by simply refreshing the browser tab 🙂