IOS – Select All in iOS Safari

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When selecting text in iOS, you get a "Select, Select All, Speak Sentence" popup as soon as you place the cursor. This doesn't seem to work in Safari where trying select something only brings up "Copy, Define, Share".

So how does one trigger "Select All" on a webpage shown in Safari?

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Best Answer

‘Select, Select All, Speak Sentence’ are the options shown when there is no current selection. In your screenshot, a selection has been made, so the options change to be contextual to your selection, namely ‘Copy, Look Up, Share…’.

You can only bring up the first set of options without a selection, therefore this is only possible in a text input or textarea. You can make the entire page editable, thereby being able to place the cursor within without a selection, by running the following JavaScript in a Shortcut:

document.body.contentEditable = "true";

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