diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_editor.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_editor.rs
index 3b4671024..50026209e 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_editor.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_editor.rs
@@ -274,19 +274,18 @@ pub fn chord_from_event(key: Key, m: Modifiers) -> Option<String> {
 
 ui_mirror!(fn backtick_store() -> Option<String>);
 
-/// Notes what the backtick key (left of 1) typed in `events`: the one-character text whose key, a
-/// press of it without modifiers, comes right before it (egui-winit) or, when no press comes
-/// before, right after it (eframe's web build with no text field focused). egui reports that key
-/// as [`Key::Backtick`] on layouts where it types a character egui has no key for, such as `"` on
-/// Turkish Q.
+/// Notes what the backtick key (left of 1) typed in `events`: the last one-character text that
+/// [`crate::shortcuts::typing_presses`] pairs with a press of that key without modifiers, whether
+/// the press comes before its text (egui-winit) or after it (eframe's web build with no text field
+/// focused). egui reports that key as [`Key::Backtick`] on layouts where it types a character egui
+/// has no key for, such as `"` on Turkish Q.
 pub(crate) fn note_backtick_text(events: &[egui::Event]) {
-    let is_press = |e: Option<&egui::Event>| matches!(e, Some(egui::Event::Key { pressed: true, .. }));
-    let is_backtick =
-        |e: Option<&egui::Event>| matches!(e, Some(egui::Event::Key { key: Key::Backtick, pressed: true, modifiers, .. }) if modifiers.is_none());
-    let typed = events.iter().enumerate().rev().find_map(|(j, e)| match e {
-        egui::Event::Text(t) if t.chars().count() == 1 && !t.chars().any(char::is_whitespace) => {
-            let before = j.checked_sub(1).and_then(|j| events.get(j));
-            (is_backtick(before) || (!is_press(before) && is_backtick(events.get(j + 1)))).then(|| t.clone())
+    let typed_by = crate::shortcuts::typing_presses(events);
+    let typed = events.iter().zip(typed_by).rev().find_map(|(e, by)| match (e, by.and_then(|k| events.get(k))) {
+        (egui::Event::Text(t), Some(egui::Event::Key { key: Key::Backtick, modifiers, .. }))
+            if modifiers.is_none() && t.chars().count() == 1 && !t.chars().any(char::is_whitespace) =>
+        {
+            Some(t.clone())
         }
         _ => None,
     });
@@ -1322,6 +1321,13 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(backtick_text().as_deref(), Some("\""));
         note_backtick_text(&[text("`"), press(Key::Backtick)]);
         assert_eq!(backtick_text(), None);
+        // Several keys typed in one frame on the web: each text goes with the press after it.
+        let web = [text("a"), press(Key::A), text("\""), press(Key::Backtick), text("b"), press(Key::B)];
+        note_backtick_text(&web);
+        assert_eq!(backtick_text().as_deref(), Some("\""));
+        note_backtick_text(&[text("`"), press(Key::Backtick)]);
+        note_backtick_text(&[press(Key::A), text("a"), press(Key::Backtick), text("\""), press(Key::B), text("b")]);
+        assert_eq!(backtick_text().as_deref(), Some("\""));
         // Only the unshifted key types that character.
         assert_eq!(on_layout("Shift+~".into(), Some("\"")), "Shift+~");
         assert_eq!(on_layout("Cmd+~".into(), Some("\"")), "Cmd+\"");
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
index b551b758d..f8aaf2dd2 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ fn latin(text: &str, physical: Option<Key>) -> String {
 /// types at most one text. A text takes the press after it only when every later text in the same
 /// run of alternating texts and presses has a press after it too; otherwise the text after that
 /// press takes it as the press before it, and this text has none.
-fn typing_presses(events: &[egui::Event]) -> Vec<Option<usize>> {
+pub(crate) fn typing_presses(events: &[egui::Event]) -> Vec<Option<usize>> {
     let is_press = |k: usize| matches!(events.get(k), Some(egui::Event::Key { key, pressed: true, .. }) if !is_modifier(*key));
     let is_text = |k: usize| matches!(events.get(k), Some(egui::Event::Text(_)));
     // Whether the run of alternating texts and presses that starts with the text at `j` ends