Hello,

Originally Ctrl+U in Konqueror did clear text input fields, it did work both on the URL bar as well as in <INPUT> fields in web pages. Since a while, Konqueror has changed to the Firefox behaviour: Ctrl+U now displays the HTML source code. The need for Ctrl+U comes from the Unix way to copy+paste: Select and paste with middle mouse button. If you use Ctrl+A and then Del, you have overwritten the clipboard.

I have been trying to adapt myself, for example using the CUA method for copy/paste, but unlearning old Unix habits is not so easy, especially as the Unix way of copy/paste is still convenient in applications like Konsole. I can't find an easy way to get back the old behaviour in the hotkey settings of Konqueror. Making ctrl+U no longer open the HTML sources is easy, but I can't find a way to assign ctrl+U to clear the current input field. There is ctrl+L but it only applies to the URL bar.

Therefore I would like to ask: Is there a way to get back the old behaviour?

menubar, settings/condigure shortcuts. filter for "clear" and assign a shortcut of your preference to "clear location bar"

This is assigned ctrl+L and affects the URL bar. You can't clear <INPUT> fields in HTML pages with ctrl+L.

Ah, you actually meant form elements. Sorry.
This still works, but is probably a feature of khtml, not supported by webkit.

Click the burger toolbutton (opens settings dialog) and in the general page, select khtml as default browser engine.

Ah great, that indeed returns the old behaviour. Thanks!