Shortcut Keys

Badboy supports some shortcut keys for convenience. These can be used while playing to play and repeat sections of script that you are testing.

Key Combination Description
F2 Toggles Record Mode On/Off
Shift-F2 Toggles Record Mode On and sets the parent Step of the currently selected item in the Script Tree as the current recording Step.
F3 Displays the search/replace dialog, or searches if the dialog is already open.
F4 Opens DOM View and tries to locate element under mouse cursor in DOM tree if mouse is in the browser window. Displays box containing element info.
Ctrl-Alt-Right Starts playing from the current item.
Shift-Enter Sets currently selected item in the Script Tree as the current play position, without playing it. Only when Script Tree view has focus.
Ctrl-Alt-Space Stops Playing
Ctrl-F5 Plays entire hierarchy from the current item. (Note: if focus is inside the browser, IE will intercept as "Refresh").
F6 Single steps (plays next single item in script.)
F8 Shows/Hides Script Tree
F9 Shows/Hides Summary Tab View
F12 Shows/Hides both Script and Summary Views together (gives browser full window space)
Ctrl-Enter Replays the item current item in the script
Ctrl-Shift-Enter Replays the current step in the script
Ctrl-Shift-Left Rewinds the play marker to the previous step.
Ctrl-Alt-Up Moves the play marker to the previous item in script.
Ctrl-Alt-Down Moves the play marker to the previous item in script.
Ctrl-L Displays the lines Server Log File related to the most recent browsing activity.
Ctrl-K Clears all responses from the Script.
Ctrl-J Attempts to find and edit the source code file for the current page and/or frame that has focus in the browser.
Ctrl-Shift-J Attempts to find and edit the source code file for the current page and/or frame that has focus in the browser and also adds the URL for the frame to your script as a Monitored request.
Ctrl-Shift-M Adds URLs for all frames in the current browser as Monitored requests.
Ctrl-Shift-L Opens DOM View and shows Badboy Log (Badboy log must be enabled in Preferences)
Ctrl-Shift-R Opens DOM View and shows Request Log
Ctrl-D Toggles DOM View On/Off for the active window.
Ctrl-Page Up While in DOM View changes to previous frame in frame list
Ctrl-Page Down While in DOM View changes to next frame in frame list
Ctrl-Space While in Log View clears current content from view and only displays new content.
Ctrl-Alt Changes Record Mode temporarily to Navigation Mode while held down
Ctrl-Alt-N Toggles record mode between Navigation and Request mode
Ctrl-Shift-D Opens the documentation editor for the item currently selected in the Script Tree.
~ Inverts a Content Check, Color Check, or Assertion
Ctrl-Alt-B Toggles a break point on the selected item in the Script Tree.
Badboy Documentation Generated on Thu Dec 31 12:56:46 EST 2009