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Want to know whether there is a default hotkey for highlighting a web-page search bar, rather than the address bar. The dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ , for example.
Thanks to Tetsujin, I have known that using "Tab" can bring one back to the top of a web page. However, it seems under Windows 7 that for one to highlight a given search bar one still has to double click the search bar.
If there is no such default hotkey, will you please tell me how to set up such one using the browser?
Double-click should select it all, then you can just type straight over that – Tetsujin – 2014-09-14T07:24:53.327
@Comeseeconquer Not a problem. – jonsca – 2014-09-14T07:47:08.677
@Tetsujin: Thanks very much. But did you mean to double click the search bar? If yes then I am afraid that is not what I am after :) Because oftentimes I have to look up the synonyms given, so I have to scroll to the top of the page so that I can re-type a new word in. But it is this that bothers me; I want to find a hotkey so that I can blacken the search bar without scrolling. – Megadeth – 2014-09-14T08:20:06.930
Have you tried Tab? – Tetsujin – 2014-09-14T08:31:54.113
@Tetsujin: Thank you, I have never known "Tab" can return screen to the top. :) But it seems that I still have to double click the search bar? So is there a hotkey to replace "double click"? Much appreciated. – Megadeth – 2014-09-14T08:34:34.063
It might depend on the OS - I'm on Mac/Safari & Tabbing back to the search automatically highlights the previous text so I can immediately overwrite – Tetsujin – 2014-09-14T08:36:47.947
Ah, mine is Windows 7. And thank you that I know how to describe the action "blacken"; it turns out that the action is called "highlight"! – Megadeth – 2014-09-14T08:37:18.153
Ctrl + K Ctrl + E – crazypotato – 2014-09-14T13:43:20.300
@crazypotato: Hey thanks so much. I had tried those two combinations; it turned out that they both give the "?" in the address bar :). – Megadeth – 2014-09-14T14:06:36.037
You should specify browser and i missed web part. – crazypotato – 2014-09-14T14:54:55.560