Keyboard shortcuts and gestures in Safari on Mac

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 “Use keyboard navigation to move focus between 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.

Show tab overview

Shift-Command-\

Open a page in a new tab

Command-click a link

Command-click a bookmark

Command-Return after typing in the Smart Search field.

Open a page in a new tab, and make that tab the active tab

Shift-Command-click a link

Shift-Command-click a bookmark

Shift-Command-Return after typing in the Smart Search field.

Make the next tab the active tab

Control-Tab or Shift-Command-]

Make the previous tab the active tab

Control-Shift-Tab or Shift-Command -[

Select one of your first nine tabs

Command-1 to Command-9

Close all tabs except for one

Option-click the Close button on the tab you want to leave open

Reopen the last tab or window you closed

Shift-Command-T

See a list of your recently visited pages by name

Hold down the Back or Forward button until the list appears

See a list of your recently visited 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 Smart 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 file in the downloads list

Zoom website content

Press Command-Plus Sign (+) or Command-Minus Sign (-)

Zoom website text

Press Option while you choose View > Make Text Bigger or View > Make Text Smaller

Show or Hide the Reading List sidebar

Control-Command-2

Add the current page

Shift-Command-D

Add a linked page

Shift-click a link to the page

Remove a page

Control-click the page summary in the sidebar, then choose Remove Item.

You can also swipe left over the page summary, then click Remove. Or, swipe all the way to the left until the page summary disappears.

Add a bookmark to the Favourites bar

Click the Smart Search field to show the page’s full address and its icon, then drag the icon to the Favourites bar

Open all bookmarks from a folder in the Favourites bar

Command-click the folder in the Favourites bar

Move a bookmark on the Favourites bar

Drag the bookmark left or right

Move a bookmark on the Favourites bar

Drag the bookmark off the top of the bar

Show or Hide the Bookmarks sidebar

Control-Command-1

Select bookmarks and folders in the sidebar

Command-click each bookmark and folder

Shift-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

Change the name or address of a bookmark

Select the bookmark, then press Return

You can also force click the bookmark

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 near the top-right corner

Delete a bookmark

Control-click the bookmark, then choose Delete