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create undo/redo button

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Articles & templates · Created by Careen Ligh
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Just imagine this:
You are marking a paragraph to cut or copy and instead deleting it. Before you manage to refresh the page autosave comes along and that content, be it a few words or a thousand, is gone. Good luck remembering all of it in detail.


This has happened to me a number of times already. And as disabling autosave is no longer an option, i would wish for a undo/redo button to avoid loosing content by accident like that. It would only be necessary to undo a few steps and many things could be saved from being lost.
Current score

26/300 Votes · +4803 points

Votes Cast

  • +100

    by LeeStepp
    on 2024-05-04 13:29
  • +100

    by JackLink916
    on 2024-05-04 10:02
  • +100

    by Art_n_Zeug
    on 2024-05-03 16:30
  • +100

    by A Revolutionary Velociraptor
    on 2024-05-03 08:36
  • +300

    by prestonthedm
    on 2024-05-02 23:29
  • +100

    by A Rambunctious Bananafolk
    on 2024-05-02 18:05
    I have actually found myself losing paragraphs of work by using Ctrl + Z, as sometimes WA doesn't recognize the last operation I put into it. It will instead delete the last chunk of text that was written, for some reason. Having a dedicated un/redo button would help, I think. (No, I did not know of a *redo* keybind until about 3 seconds ago (Ctrl + Y for reference).)
  • +1

    by juggaloChaos
    on 2024-05-01 12:08
  • +300

    by A Roaring Bananafolk
    on 2024-05-01 01:29
  • +100

    by NotAPandaWasTaken
    on 2024-05-01 00:47
  • +300

    by moose.reads
    on 2024-04-30 14:20
  • +1

    by grinningsatyr
    on 2024-04-28 13:20
  • +100

    by A Thundering Elf
    on 2024-04-27 21:00
  • +300

    by Thereasonwhy
    on 2024-04-27 02:36
  • +1

    by Amancham
    on 2024-04-26 19:57
    WeStanNikolai already mentioned that there is an undo option already. However, I agree that it's not visible or obvious and I had the same issue happen until I found with some searching, that the Ctrl + Z option exists.
  • +300

    by ColTigh128
    on 2024-04-26 13:01
  • +1

    by Goreface
    on 2024-04-26 05:38
  • +300

    by Christelijk13
    on 2024-04-25 22:49
  • +300

    by Inferus0
    on 2024-04-25 22:09
  • +300

    by Mournblade94
    on 2024-04-25 17:55
  • +300

    by alegrand12
    on 2024-04-25 17:49
  • +300

    by N7 Sgt Pwnage
    on 2024-04-25 17:45
  • +300

    by Slav2297
    on 2024-04-25 06:16
  • +300

    by Garun Wulfhart
    on 2024-04-25 00:59
  • +100

    by Jedu
    on 2024-04-24 19:46
  • +100

    by A Beloved Devil
    on 2024-04-24 19:03
  • -1

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2024-04-24 09:03
    Hi there, you can press Ctrl + Z to undo your last step, even after autosave triggered :)
  • +300

    by Careen Ligh
    on 2024-04-23 19:44