{"id":668,"date":"2018-03-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/?p=668"},"modified":"2018-03-22T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T05:21:51","slug":"quickly-focus-the-url-search-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/2018\/03\/23\/quickly-focus-the-url-search-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly Focus the URL\/Search Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best, lesser-known keyboard shortcuts web browsers offer is <kbd>Command<\/kbd> + <kbd>L<\/kbd> (Mac\/iOS) or <kbd>Control<\/kbd> + <kbd>L<\/kbd> (Windows\/Linux).  This keyboard shortcut will immediately bring focus to the location bar and select whatever&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>With this keyboard shortcut you can make quick work of many common tasks.  Here are some examples for Mac and iOS (to use these on Windows or Linux just use the <kbd>Control<\/kbd> key instead of <kbd>Command<\/kbd> unless otherwise noted):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit <kbd>Command<\/kbd> + <kbd>L<\/kbd> followed by <kbd>Command<\/kbd> + <kbd>C<\/kbd> to copy the current search or URL.<\/li>\n<li>Hit <kbd>Command<\/kbd> + <kbd>L<\/kbd> and immediately start typing to replace whatever&#8217;s in the location bar.<\/li>\n<li>Hit <kbd>Command<\/kbd> + <kbd>L<\/kbd> and then the left or right arrow keys to go to the beginning or end of whatever&#8217;s in the location bar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web browsers offer some really useful keyboard shortcuts. Here&#8217;s one of the lesser-known, yet extremely useful ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}