---
title: Shortcut
type: tags
order: 425
meta_title: Shortcut Tag to Define Shortcuts

meta_description: Customize Label Studio to define keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys to accelerate labeling for machine learning and data science projects.

The Shortcut tag to define a shortcut that annotators can use to add a predefined object, such as a specific label value, with a hotkey or keyboard shortcut.

Use with the following data types:
- Audio
- Image
- HTML
- Paragraphs
- Text
- Time series
- Video

{% insertmd includes/tags/shortcut.md %}

Example

Basic labeling configuration to add a shortcut that places the text SILENCE in a given Text Area while doing transcription.

Note: The default background color for the Shortcut tag is grey color.

You can change the background color using text or hexadecimal format in the background parameter.

<View>
  <TextArea name="txt-1">
    <Shortcut alias="Silence" value="SILENCE" hotkey="ctrl+1" background="#3333333" />
  </TextArea>
</View>