Is there a keyboard shortcut to edit a checklist item?

Edward Walker
Contributor
November 1, 2023

I'm working on a card with some very long checklists, and I'd like to be able to quickly edit checklist items.

Once I edit and save a checklist item, I can focus the next one with Tab (it shows an orange border indicating this), but I can't seem to do anything with the focussed item.

I've tried Space, Enter, Insert, Delete, Numpad 0, and a few random letters (E, L, C, W), but nothing seems to open the checklist item editor. Some of these do other things to the card; some don't do anything at all.

I'm assuming, since I can focus a checklist item with the keyboard, I must at least be able to tick it off, but I can't even find a way to do that — let alone to edit it.
Is there some set of shortcuts I'm missing?


(I've also checked https://trello.com/shortcuts, https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/using-keyboard-shortcuts-in-trello/, and https://www.bluecatreports.com/blog/trello-keyboard-shortcuts-ultimate-guide/ but none of them seem to list these kind of checklist-related shortcuts.)

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Edward Walker
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November 7, 2024

This has been fixed now!

If you select a checklist item using the keyboard (e.g. using TAB until a black or orange border appears around the item text), then press Enter or Space, it will open the editor for that checklist item.

This is still not documented in any of the places I looked though (https://trello.com/shortcuts, https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/using-keyboard-shortcuts-in-trello/https://www.bluecatreports.com/blog/trello-keyboard-shortcuts-ultimate-guide/, and https://www.atlassian.com/blog/trello/trello-keyboard-shortcuts-infographic).

[While it isn't a Trello site, I should also note that the Blue Cat Reports link is actually out of date — it falsely says Space will "Assign yourself to the selected ... checklist item", but pressing Space in this situation actually now edits the checklist item.]

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Edward Walker
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November 5, 2023

(This wasn't meant to be an answer, sorry; I've moved it to a comment which is what I intended to write.)

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Clark Everson
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November 1, 2023

Hi @Edward Walker 

It does not appear so. You can view the list here: https://blog.trello.com/trello-keyboard-shortcuts-infographic

 

That would be a good one though!

Edward Walker
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November 5, 2023

> You can view the list here: https://blog.trello.com/trello-keyboard-shortcuts-infographic

Is this the most current and complete list?

 

The shortcut "Auto-link a card" (`#`) from that page doesn't seem to work for me.

All the other shortcuts there are also in the page I checked before (https://trello.com/shortcuts), which also has some new ones, such as `-` to add a checklist.

 

If there isn't a shortcut to edit a checklist item, that's fair enough — but I want to be sure I'm looking at an up-to-date list of shortcuts to confirm that.

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