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Asked: 2026-06-07T18:30:17+00:00

I’m trying to make a shortcut function so that if somebody presses Alt+T they

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I’m trying to make a shortcut function so that if somebody presses Alt+T they can tweet the article. I have the shortcut part sorted so ignore that part, it’s just tweeting the title and URL of the page. Here’s what I have so far

<script type="text/javascript">
shortcut.add("Alt+T",function() {
window.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=(document.title) - &url=(document.URL)&via=jamiebrittain")
});
</script>

It seems that document.title and document.url aren’t changing to page title and URL. This is all in a script tag stating it’s javascript so why is not changing or does document.title and document.url not work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Instead of

    window.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=(document.title) - &url=(document.URL)&via=jamiebrittain")

    do

    window.open("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+"&url="+ encodeURIComponent(document.URL)+"&via=jamiebrittain")

    you need to concatenate the string with the javascript variables instead of using them inline.

    Thanks @Esailija for pointing out that you need to use encodeURIComponent too – this ensures that the variables are encoded before being added to the string

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