Open Links/Higlight Fields in Safari With Your Keyboard

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You probably already know that pressing Tab while in Safari, cycles through all the text fields on your current page. What you might not be aware of is that if you hold Option when pressing Tab, it will highlight the next object the site (or text field).

For example, if I hit Option + Tab while on the MacTips home page, the first object on the page gets highlighted in blue (in this case, the MacTips banner). To open a highlighted link, hit Return.

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Written by Michael Zhao on February 24, 2008 at 12:30 pm - Open Links/Higlight Fields in Safari With Your Keyboard has 4 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, Safari Tips, Speed Tips, keyboard shortcuts - Tags: , , ,

4 Responses to “Open Links/Higlight Fields in Safari With Your Keyboard”

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    Omer Zach
    Great tip! I think I found this a while back but didn't really remember it for long enough to take advantage of it. February 24th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

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    Link33
    Nice tip! Another cool thing is to hit the space bar while on top of a button to click it. Like check boxes, radio buttons and "Submit" buttons. February 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

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    Omer Zach
    If you go into Safari's preferences and select the Advanced pane, you can set Safari to work like this by default, making Option-Tab highlight what just Tab normally does.

    @Link33: Hmm, that doesn't seem to work for me. February 25th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

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    Link33
    Using Safari 3.0.4, OS X 10.4.11, with "Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage" unchecked in the Advanced Preference Pane it works for me. YMMV apparently. February 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

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