Way to fast select text in web page in chrome

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Anyone knows of a way to select all text in a section of a web page (it woud be a DIV in html) without having to select from top to bottom with the mouse? The intent is to click at beginning of the text in the main part of the page (no, adds, no menus, etc) to select and send to TTS app There are ways to do this editing html code, but I am looking for quick select-to-tts (or could be sent to any other app/extension) Thanks

Thanks, but triple click selects only the current paragraph not all paragraphs in the section — Marco, Jun 27 '16 at 17:06
It would be great if I could ctrl click a word instead of double clicking it to select it. Also when I hold down ctrl, I want to select a number of whole words. — Anders Lindén, Sep 24 '19 at 06:10

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '19 at 16:57

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Using Windows 10 Pro version 1903 OS Build 18362.xxx Chrome Version 75.0.3770.80

Ctrl-A = Select All (entire webpage)
Ctrl-Shift-End = Select to end from any selected starting point on page
Ctrl-Shift-Home = Select all from selected starting point to top

answered Jun 06 '19 at 16:57

Connection Coach

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Ctrl-A also works on Windows 8.1 Professional. – agcala Apr 22 '20 at 23:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '18 at 07:26

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The easiest way I have found which almost answers your Question:

Select the first word or letter or a part of the word where you want to start copying.
Scroll down till the place you have to copy.
Hold down the Shift key, and click on the ending of the text.

answered Mar 30 '18 at 07:26

Arutsudar Arut

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Absolutely brilliant, I did this for a 30,000-line page where CTRL-A would select stuff unwanted. Your first points in superuser are well deserved, pity it took 4 years! – boardtc Nov 09 '22 at 16:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 07 '20 at 05:12

I understand you may have privacy concern, but this extension might be helpful. It's called PrintFriendly. It allows you to do a simple one-click to remove portions yo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/print-friendly-pdf/ohlencieiipommannpdfcmfdpjjmeolj

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '17 at 04:35

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How do I select all in Chrome on a web page.

Try Ctrl+A (Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+P to paste, Ctrl+Z to undo, Ctrl+Y to "redo (undo an undo) - probably the most useful keyboard shortcuts.) Edited July 2, 2012 by tengreenfingers

answered Sep 16 '17 at 04:35

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Người Dưng · Answer 5 · 2020-05-23T11:49:06.737

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You would love this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-copy/cpckijnniakijaejiimdekjdlnammgko

Only by place the mouse to the paragraph and press ctrl+shirt or ctrl+alt.

edited May 23 '20 at 11:49

answered May 23 '20 at 11:43

Người Dưng

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Way to fast select text in web page in chrome

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