Backspace ( ← Backspace ) is the keyboard key that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor one position backwards, deletes the character at that position, and shifts back the text after that position by one position.

What is the function of Backspace and Delete key?

Both the Del or Delete key and Backspace key can delete text. However, when dealing with text, pressing the Del deletes text to the right of the cursor. Pressing Backspace deletes text to the left (backwards) of the cursor.

What is the function of delete?

Uses. When struck on a computer keyboard during text or command editing, the delete key ( Delete or Del ), known less ambiguously as forward delete, discards the character ahead of the cursor's position, moving all following characters one position "back" towards the freed letterspace.