Smart text highlighting in Safari

Mar 11, '03 10:14:00AM

Contributed by: godfatherK

In Safari, you can highlight text using traditional click-drag selection method. But there is one more way of highlighting text in Safari! Instead of a single-click to begin the highlighting, use a double-click, hold, then drag. As you drag on, Safari will highlight by word, not by a single character proximate to the cursor.

This makes selecting much easier and more accurate (assuming that you want to select words in their entirety).

[robg adds: This is actually a standard feature of Cocoa, and should work in any Cocoa application such as Mail and TextEdit. We have run a couple of other hints about Cocoa's text editing features (1, 2) if you'd like to read more about them.]

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