Safari keyboard and other shortcuts

Here are shortcuts you can use, in addition to those that appear in Safari menus.

Open Safari for me

Webpages

Scroll up, down, left, or right

Press the arrow keys.

Scroll in larger increments

Press Option while you press an arrow key.

Scroll down a screen

Page Down

Space bar

Scroll up a screen

Page Up

Shift–Space bar

Scroll to the top-left or bottom-left corner of the page

Command (⌘)–Up Arrow or Home

Command (⌘)–Down Arrow or End

Highlight the next item on a webpage

Tab highlights the next text field or pop-up menu. Tab also highlights buttons and other controls if “All controls” is selected in the Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard pane of System Preferences.

Option-Tab highlights the same items as Tab plus all other clickable items.

To swap the behavior of Tab and Option-Tab, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage” in the Advanced pane of Safari preferences.

Open a page in a new tab

Command (⌘)-click a link

Command (⌘)-click a bookmark

Command (⌘)-Return after typing in the address and search field

Open a page in a new tab, and bring the tab to the front

Shift-Command (⌘)-click a link

Shift-Command (⌘)-click a bookmark

Shift-Command (⌘)-Return after typing in the address and search field

Bring the next tab to the front

Control-Tab or Shift-Command (⌘)-[

Bring the previous tab to the front

Control-Shift-Tab or Shift-Command (⌘)-]

Close all tabs except for one

Option-click the close button (X) on the tab you want to leave open

Open in tabs all the bookmarks in a folder in the Favorites bar

Command (⌘)-click the folder in the Favorites bar

See a list of recent pages by name

Hold down the Back or Forward button until the list appears

See a list of recent pages by web address (URL)

Press Option and hold down the Back or Forward button until the list appears

Go to your homepage

Command (⌘)-Home key

While typing in the address and search field, restore the current webpage address

Esc

Close Reader

Esc

Exit full-screen view

Esc

Download a linked file

Option-click a link to the file

Open a downloaded file

Double-click the icon next to the file in the downloads list

Reading List

Add the current page

Shift-Command (⌘)-D

Add a linked page

Shift-click a link to the page

Bookmarks

Add a bookmark to the Favorites bar

Click the address and search field to show the page’s full address and its icon, then drag the icon to the Favorites bar

Move a bookmark on the Favorites bar

Drag the bookmark left or right

Remove a bookmark from the Favorites bar

Drag the bookmark off the top of the bar

Bookmarks sidebar and bookmarks view

Select bookmarks and folders in the sidebar

Command (⌘)-click each bookmark and folder

Shift-Command (⌘)-click to extend the selection

Select the next bookmark or folder

Up Arrow or Down Arrow

Open the selected bookmark

Space bar

Open the selected folder

Space bar or Right Arrow

Close the selected folder

Space bar or Left Arrow

Open the selected folder and its subfolders in the sidebar

Option–Right Arrow

Open the selected folder and its subfolders in the sidebar

Option–Left Arrow

Change the name or address of a bookmark

Select the bookmark, then press Return

Cancel editing a bookmark name in the sidebar

Esc

Finish editing a bookmark name

Return

Create a folder containing the selected bookmarks and folders in bookmarks view

Option-click the New Folder button at the bottom of the window

Delete a bookmark

Select the bookmark, then press Delete