What is Caret browsing in Internet Explorer 8

Caret Browsing is cool feature available in Internet Explorer 8.

Rather than using a mouse to select text and move around within a webpage, you can use standard navigation keys on your keyboard-Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, and the arrow keys. This feature is called Caret Browsing and is named after the caret-or cursor-that appears when you edit a document.

You can press F7 to turn On or Off Caret browsing.

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If you want to enable Caret browsing for new tabs or new windows then Enable Caret Browsing for new windows and tabs check box needs to be selected in Internet Options -> Advanced Tab.

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lakisha banks February 17, 2010 at 7:37 am

I click on the browser to find out more info and it didnt give me any. i need to know what caret browsing is. Thank you……..

smaea March 2, 2010 at 2:45 pm

i see. i pressed f7 and i can move around the cursor around the webpage. neat! thanks for sharing

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