Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts

You can control new versions of our media player using your keyboard. These are used across 91¸£ÀûÉç Sounds and iPlayer as well as other media throughout the 91¸£ÀûÉç website.

You can start using keyboard shortcuts as soon as you play something. Before then, only the ‘play’ and ‘full screen’ keyboard shortcuts work. The shortcuts are:

Play    

  • Space bar (when focus is on the player or seek bar)
  • k
  • 'Play' media key

Pause or stop    

  • Space bar (when focus is on the player or seek bar)
  • k
  • 'Pause' or 'Stop' media key

Subtitles on or off    

  •  s
  • 888

Rewind    

  •  j
  • Left arrow

Fast forward    

  • l (that's a lower case letter 'L')
  • Right arrow

Mute or unmute    

  • m

Full screen    

  • f

Exit full screen    

  • f
  • Esc