The key is a key commonly found on
desktop
A desktop traditionally refers to:
* The surface of a desk (often to distinguish office appliances that fit on a desk, such as photocopiers and printers, from larger equipment covering its own area on the floor)
Desktop may refer to various compu ...
and
laptop
A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC). Laptops typically have a Clamshell design, clamshell form factor (design), form factor with a flat-panel computer scree ...
keyboards. The key has the opposite effect of the
Home key. In some limited-size keyboards where the key is missing the same functionality can be reached via the key combination of or Control + End keys
Its standard symbol as described in
ISO/IEC 9995-7, i.e. , is used on some full-size keyboards instead of a possibly localized text label.
Microsoft Windows
In modern
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...
text editing applications, the key is primarily used to move the cursor to the end of the line in which it is positioned. When the text is not editable, it is used to scroll to the end of the document; this can also be done in editable text if the key is pressed along with .
The key can also be used to highlight all the characters after the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with in editable text.
macOS
In most
macOS
macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...
applications, the key works differently than on other platforms. When the key is pressed, the window scrolls to the bottom, while the cursor position does not change at all; that is, the key is tied to the window, not the text box being edited. On Apple keyboards that do not have an End key, one can press for the End key functionality described above. To get the same result as the Windows platform (that is, going to the end of the current line of text), press . In most single-line text fields, you can also instead press the down arrow key. An application can be used to change this behaviour.
Linux
In
Linux
Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
, the key has basically the same functionality as it does on Windows. It positions the cursor at the end of a line in editable text, and otherwise scrolls a scrollable document to the end. Also, like Windows, the key can be used to highlight all the characters after the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with in editable text.
Non-GUI applications
In older screen-oriented,
text-based
In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an ear ...
(non-
GUI) applications, the user pressed the "End" key to indicate that they had finished entering data on a particular "screen".
See also
*
Home key
References
{{keyboard keys
Computer keys