How to Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard

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Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard

Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard, Edge caret browsing, Windows 10 edge swipe navigation

Sometimes you need to copy and paste a chunk of text from a webpage, and your mouse is just not precise enough to grab the exact lines you want (especially if you happen to be using a touchpad). There’s a built-in solution in Microsoft Edge: Caret browsing.

Caret navigation is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as a ‘text cursor’, ‘text insertion cursor’, or ‘text selection cursor’) is used to navigate within a text document.

Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox both support Caret browsing, but caret browsing or caret navigation is not supported by Google Chrome.

But if you want to use caret Browsing or Caret navigation in Google chrome you can do it by using this plugin called Caret Plugin from chrome store. Some features of this plugin are:

  • Press F7 to turn on Caret Browsing. Press it again to turn it off.
  • Use arrow keys to move throughout the document.
  • Click anywhere to move the cursor to that location.
  • Press Shift + arrows to select text.
  • Hold down Option to move by word. When you reach a link or control, it is automatically focused. Press Enter to click a link or button. When a focused control (like a text box or a list box) is capturing arrow keys, press Esc followed by the left or right arrow to continue Caret Browsing.

Caret navigation is a feature that lets you navigate webpages with your keyboard, similar to how you navigate through a Word document.

Turn on caret Browsing or caret navigation for Single tab in Microsoft Edge:

Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard
Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard

Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard, Edge caret browsing, Windows 10 edge swipe navigation

  1. You can turn on caret Browsing or Caret navigation for a single tab or permanently.
  2. So, if you just want to turn on Caret Browsing or Caret navigation for the current Microsoft Edge Browser tab, then just hitF7.
  3. A new window will pop up, telling you if you want to turn on Caret Browsing or Caret navigation,
  4. Just tap or clickon Yes to turn it on.
  5. To turn it off, just hit F7 

 

Turn on caret Browsing or caret navigation permanently in Microsoft Edge:

windows 10 edge keyboard shortcuts
windows 10 edge keyboard shortcuts

Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard, Edge caret browsing, Windows 10 edge swipe navigation

  1. And the other hand if you want to if you want to turn on Caret Browsing or Caret navigation permanently in Microsoft Edge,
  2. Then in the first step just tap or click on the … main menu button, which is in the top right corner of the screen, and
  3. Then Go to >Settings to open up the Settings Window.
  4. Now Scroll down to the bottom of the Settings sidebar toAdvanced settings and
  5. Then clickView advanced settings.
  6. In theAdvanced settings menu, you’ll see a toggle that says Always use caret browsing.
  7. Turn this toggleOn to turn caret browsing on permanently.
  8. Just restart your browser before you see any changes.

To see if caret Browsing or caret navigation is turned on or not, just tap or click anywhere on a webpage to place a blinking text cursor. You can now select text by holding down the Shift key and using the arrow keys to grab letters Forward/Back and lines Up/Down.

Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard, Edge caret browsing, Windows 10 edge swipe navigation

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Navigate Microsoft Edge with your keyboard, Edge caret browsing, Windows 10 edge swipe navigation