Almost it looks like a cellphone browser, quite useful when you are using laptop touchpad rather than a mouse. Now you can use various navigation keys on your keyboard including ‘Home’, ‘End’, ‘Page Up’, ‘Page Down’, 4 arrow keys to select text, hold ‘Shift’ key and move the caret to select multiple lines. Think of how you use them in a text box, but across the whole page. It will prompt you to turn Caret Browsing on, press ‘Yes’ and Caret Browsing will be enabled. Caret Browsing is when you navigate around a page by using the keyboard arrows. To enable or disable Caret Browsing on a webpage, just press ‘F7’ function key.

But this feature is not supported by all browsers, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox support Caret Browsing. F7 does nothing, theres nothing I can find in Settings to turn it off manually, and going into about:config just showed it as set to false despite it very much being enabled. But what would you call it, if you can select text on a webpage by using keyboard only? This is what we call as called Caret Browsing or Caret Navigation where a caret (also known as ‘text cursor’ or ‘text insertion cursor’ or ‘text selection cursor) is used to navigate within webpage, same as Microsoft Word. There are two ways to activate Caret Browsing in Google Chrome: using a hotkey or from Chrome’s Accessibility menu. Im not sure when caret browsing was even enabled (I suspect it might have been when my cat tried to take a nap on my keyboard) but I havent been able to shut it off since. For more information on legal values, read our CSS Colors Tutorial: initial: Sets this property to its default value. All legal color values can be used (rgb, hex, named-color, etc). Like most of the people, you probably use mouse to select text on a webpage during internet browsing and just for typing purpose, you use keyboard. Browsers uses the currentColor for the caret: color: Specifies a color to use for the caret. Have you heard about Caret Browsing? This is quite old technical term but if you are not keyboard savvy person, you would not be familiar with caret browsing or caret navigation.

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