Keyboard Shortcuts

Note

Most of the below shortcuts can be changed in the Preferences.

On Mac, replace Ctrl with the Command key.

General

• Right Click on Tile - Captures the tile under the mouse (drag to capture larger areas).
• Ctrl + MouseWheel - Zoom in/out on tileset and map
• Ctrl + Plus/Minus - Zoom in/out on map
• Ctrl + 0 - Reset zoom on map
• Ctrl + Object Move - Toggles “Snap to Grid” temporarily
• Ctrl + Object Resize - Keep aspect ratio
• Alt + Object Resize - Toggles “Snap to Grid” temporarily
• Middle Click or Space Bar - Hold to pan the map view
• Ctrl + X - Cut (tiles, objects or properties)
• Ctrl + C - Copy (tiles, objects or properties)
• Ctrl + V - Paste (tiles, objects or properties)
• Del - Delete (tiles or objects)
• H - Toggle highlighting of the current layer
• A - Invokes Automapping
• Alt + C - Copy current position of mouse cursor to clipboard (in tile coordinates)
• Ctrl + D - Duplicate selected objects
• Ctrl + Shift + D - Duplicate active layer
• F2 - Rename (if applicable in context)
• Tab - Hide docks and tool bars
• Ctrl + PgUp - Select previous layer (above current layer)
• Ctrl + PgDown - Select next layer (below current layer)
• Ctrl + Shift + Up - Move current layer up
• Ctrl + Shift + Down - Move current layer down
• Ctrl + Shift + H - Show/Hide all other layers (only active layer visible / all layers visible)
• Ctrl + Tab - Switch to left document
• Ctrl + Shift + Tab - Switch to right document
• Alt + Left - Switch to left document
• Alt + Right - Switch to right document
• ] - Select next tileset
• [ - Select previous tileset
• Ctrl + G - Toggle displaying of the tile grid
• Ctrl + W - Close current document
• Ctrl + Shift + W - Close all documents
• Ctrl + E - Export current document
• Ctrl + Shift + E - Export current document to another file
• Ctrl + Q - Quit Tiled
• Ctrl + R - Reload current document
• Ctrl + T - Force-reload all tilesets used by the current map (mainly useful when not using the automatic reloading)

When a tile layer is selected

• D - Toggle Random Mode
• B - Activate Stamp Brush
  • Shift + Click - Line mode, places tiles on a line between two clicked locations
  • Ctrl + Shift + Click - Circle mode, places tiles around the clicked center
• T - Activate Terrain Brush
• G - Activate Wang Brush (since Tiled 1.1)
• F - Activate Bucket Fill Tool
• P - Activate Shape Fill Tool
• E - Activate Eraser
• R - Activate Rectangular Select
• W - Activate Magic Wand
• S - Activate Select Same Tile
• Ctrl + 1-9 - Store current tile selection (similar to Ctrl + C)
• 1-9 recall the previous selection (similar to Ctrl + V)
• Ctrl + A - Select the whole layer
• Ctrl + Shift + A - Select nothing

Changing the active stamp:

• X - Flip active stamp horizontally
• Y - Flip active stamp vertically
• Z - Rotate active stamp clockwise
• Shift + Z - Rotate active stamp counterclockwise

When an object layer is selected

• S - Activate Select Objects
  • PgUp - Raise selected objects (with Manual object drawing order)
  • PgDown - Lower selected objects (with Manual object drawing order)
  • Home - Move selected objects to Top (with Manual object drawing order)
  • End - Move selected objects to Bottom (with Manual object drawing order)
• O - Activate Edit Polygons
• R - Activate Insert Rectangle
• I - Activate Insert Point
• C - Activate Insert Ellipse
• P - Activate Insert Polygon
  • Enter - Finish creating object
  • Escape - Cancel creating object
• T - Activate Insert Tile
• V - Activate Insert Template (since Tiled 1.1)
• E - Activate Insert Text
• Ctrl + A - Select all objects in the current object layer
• Ctrl + Shift + A - Clear object selection

In the Properties dialog

• Del or Backspace - Deletes a property