English keyboard online – British QWERTY

English keyboard with the British QWERTY layout (UK). Type in the text field or use the virtual keys, then copy your text.

Instructions and UK/US comparison

How to use the online English keyboard

Click in the text field and type, or select letters with a mouse click or a tap.
Use Shift for capital letters and more special characters. Caps Lock keeps capital letters active.
Copy your text using the copy icon in the toolbar. The bin icon clears the text field.

This virtual keyboard adds directly accessible special characters to the selected layout. It does not change your physical keyboard's system-wide layout.

English and German keyboards: QWERTY versus QWERTZ

The top letter row starts with QWERTY on an English keyboard and QWERTZ on a German keyboard: Y and Z swap positions. Standard UK and US layouts have no dedicated keys for Ä, Ö, Ü or ß. Some punctuation and special characters also occupy different positions.

Use the German online keyboard for umlauts

British and American keyboards compared

Both use QWERTY. This table describes standard physical PC layouts. Shortcuts may differ on a Mac or with other system layouts.

Key differences between UK and US keyboards
Character	British (UK)	American (US)
@	Shift + apostrophe (')	Shift + 2
Double quotation mark (")	Shift + 2	Shift + apostrophe (')
£	Shift + 3	No dedicated standard key
#	Dedicated key next to Enter	Shift + 3

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Enter @, £, €, # and quotation marks online

On this online UK keyboard you can click @ and # directly. £ is on the Shift layer. € is available as an extra key (on the Shift layer on smartphones). Apostrophe (') and double quotation mark (") are on the normal and Shift layers respectively.

Entering € on a physical keyboard depends on the operating system and selected layout. On the UK online keyboard, use the virtual € key instead of an unsuitable shortcut.

Type @ on a physical English PC keyboard

On a standard UK PC layout, press Shift + apostrophe (') for @. On a US PC layout, press Shift + 2. Mac layouts may differ. On this online keyboard, @ is also directly clickable.

Unicode input on Linux

In supported Linux input environments, such as many GTK applications, you can enter @ by its Unicode code point. This shortcut does not generally work on Windows or macOS, or in every Linux application or browser.

Briefly press Ctrl + Shift + U together. An underlined u appears if this input method is supported.
Type 40 and press Enter.

If your input environment supports this method, @ appears. Test field:

About Unicode

Unicode assigns unique code points to letters and special characters. The at sign is U+0040. How code points can be entered depends on the operating system and application. Leading zeros may be omitted with the Linux method above.

English keyboard and language tools

This online keyboard follows the British United Kingdom layout and adds directly accessible special characters. The English alphabet has 26 Latin letters.

Optional language tools

Read aloud: Listen to your English text using the pronunciation for the selected UK or US variant.
Grammar check: Check the spelling and grammar of your English text in the selected variant.
Voice input: Dictate English text instead of typing. Availability depends on your browser.
Translation: Translate your English text into another language using the translation tool.

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Conjugation tables

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