Welcome to yEd Q&A!
Here you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of the community and yEd developers. And you can tell us your most wanted feature requests.

Categories

What is the keyboard shortcut to add the text label to an icon?

0 votes
Often, as part of creating an object I want to label it. Simply typing should make the label but it doesn't. Failing that there should be a keyboard shortcut to start typing the label, but I can't find it.

What is that keyboard shortcut?
in Help by (210 points)

1 Answer

0 votes
For a single selected element, F2 will start the inline text editor.

Aside from that, there are also "File" -> "Preferences", tab "Editor", settings "Edit Label on Create Node" and "Edit Label on Create Edge".
by [yWorks] (160k points)
Thank you!

For me, F2 toggles "snap lines". Maybe because I'm on a Mac.

I do find that "Enter" starts the inline text editor. Even better, though, is "Edit Label on Create Node".
Legal Disclosure | Privacy Policy
...