I haven’t used this AccessKey property till today, not because of it is not compatible with all browsers but i was unaware of this feature actually. The Access key is a very nice feature if you are working this on the IE4 or later versions of Internet Explorer . 

The Accesskey value can be a single character.

If you set the accesskey value of a control, say you set the accesskey value for your search textbox as ’s’, when ever the user on that page press Alt+S he will be focussed to that textbox.

So if you are developing an application just for some persons and if you can say work on IE4 or later, this will be a good feature which will save time.

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