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Is there a keyboard shortcut to jump to the Comment Box or workaround?

JR
Contributor
February 12, 2025

Hello all

 

Trello is pretty nice to use with keyboard shortcuts, allowing a lot of control without using the mouse (the insane "c" to archive shortcut should be shot into space tho).

What seems to be missing is the ability to jump to the comment box like on Jira to add a comment ("j" IIRC).  This seems like a fairly obvious thing to add?  This is one of the most common things I do on a card, far more common than e.g. adding a label.

I have a zillion Custom Fields so it's not feasible to tab through.

Any suggestions for workarounds or browser extensions?

Thanks in advance

 

 

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JR
Contributor
February 12, 2025

I managed to make this JS bookmarklet which does seem to work if you bookmark it (add to URL field).  I shall see if this continues to work!

javascript&colon;(function() { var inputs = document.querySelectorAll('input, textarea'); for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) { if (inputs[i].placeholder.includes("Write a comment")) { inputs[i].focus(); return; } } alert("No input field found with 'Write a comment'.");})();

Even better, I managed to use a browser extension to map a keyboard shortcut to this :-)

 

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JR
Contributor
May 21, 2025

Sadly a change to Trello seems to have broken this :-(

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Alisson Sartor
Atlassian Team
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February 13, 2025

Hello, JR

Welcome to the community

Currently there's no shortcut for it, you can check all the shortcuts here.

https://trello.com/shortcuts

Interesting bookmarklet alternative, thanks for sharing.

Kind Regards
Alisson
Trello Team


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