# Ctrl+Z does not undo my previous step

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-z-does-not-undo-my-previous-step/23507
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 29, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-z-does-not-undo-my-previous-step/23507 "2014-12-29T16:13:06Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-z-does-not-undo-my-previous-step/23507/2 "2014-12-29T17:27:25Z")

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This is 100% browser and OS specific, we do not override the default browser text box handling of these keys. You can experiment here:

Take [http://codepen.io/anon/pen/uryJl](http://codepen.io/anon/pen/uryJl) which contains a plain html text box.

In different web browsers, type in

> test line one  
> test line two  
> test line three

And then try ctrl+z.

Depends on the browser and whether you naturally pause or not when typing. Play with it and see.

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