![]() ![]() There is another way to enable/disable Caret Browsing feature in Chrome. So remember you can press F7 key anytime in your web browser to enable/disable Caret Browsing feature. ![]() Click on “ Turn Off” button and it’ll immediately deactivate and disable Caret Browsing feature and Arrow keys will start scrolling webpages. If you are facing this issue in Chrome browser, you just need to press F7 key on your keyboard, Chrome will show a confirmation box asking for your permission to turn on/off Caret Browsing feature. There is a universal keyboard shortcut or hotkey to turn on/off Caret Browsing mode in web browsers and if a user accidentally presses the hotkey, it activates Caret Browsing feature and the user starts facing this issue. That’s why if Caret Browsing feature is activated in a web browser, Arrow keys stop scrolling the webpages and move the cursor through written text. This feature has been implemented in web browsers to help people in selecting text on webpages more easily using keyboard. ![]() Instead the Arrow keys move the cursor through the written text on webpages. Once a user turns on Caret Browsing feature, the Arrow keys no longer scroll the webpages. If you are also facing this issue in Chrome, this tutorial will help you in fixing the issue and make Arrow keys working again in Chrome browser.Īctually Google Chrome and other web browsers come with an accessibility feature called “ Caret Browsing” which allows users to activate and enable a movable cursor in the web browser. The cursor was going through the webpage text like you are trying to type or modify the text in a word processor program. The cursor was behaving just like it works inside Notepad, Wordpad, Microsoft Word, etc text editing programs. Instead the mouse cursor was navigating through the text character by character displaying on the webpage. Whenever he was trying to press Arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll up or down on webpages, Chrome was not scrolling the page. Recently an AskVG reader contacted me regarding this annoying issue.
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