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Definition: caret browsing


A feature in Web browsers that allows the user to move around a Web page and highlight selections with the keyboard rather than a mouse. Users unaccustomed to a laptop touchpad often find caret browsing easier to use for selecting text. The caret is the name of the vertical "|" text cursor. See caret and text cursor.