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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 4, 2015 1:06PM

Jim,

What else do you want it to do? Personally I use it on bad days to click on
links, or if the link is single characters, like on wikis.

Off the top of my head :focus{..} still works to modify things. I don't
think you can adjust the visual look of the caret though.

--
Ryan E. Benson

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Jim Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> In IE and FF you can turn on caret browsing with F7. In Chrome you need an
> extension.
> Caret browsing lets a user perform text selections, copy, etc. from the
> keyboard. The user can also activate links by moving the caret into the
> text of an anchor and hitting enter. The link gets a focus ring. Other than
> selection (copy) and link activation nothing else seems to works.
>
> Is the position of the caret available to users (for style sheets - use
> like pseudo elements) or developers?
>
> Does anyone know of resources about caret functionality?
>
> Jim
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