sigh. yeah, i like this too. ie does this, the others don't. i can't fathom why. if you click three times in rapid succession, it will select the entire address... i've gotten into the habit of typing "cmd-l" right off when i want to go to another URL. it automatically highlights the URL, and makes that area active. --alan On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 05:42 AM, Laurie A Duncan wrote: > I expect that if I click in that bar, the entire address field is > going to be auto-highlighted so I can just type the new address in. It > works > that was in IE. I like it. It makes sense. Safari doesn't do that. So > an > added "command-a" is required to highlight before I type the new > address so > I can type OVER what's there.