Triple-click

Examples of usage

On text

In most text processing programs and edit controls triple-clicking with the primary mouse button (the left button for right-handers) on the text selects the entire line. If the edit control is not multiline, the entire text is selected.

Microsoft Word

A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the entire paragraph. A triple-click in the left margin (when the mouse pointer is an up-and-to-the-right arrow) selects the entire document.

Microsoft Works

A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the line. A triple-click in the left margin (when the mouse pointer is an up-and-to-the-right arrow) selects the entire document.

Corel WordPerfect

A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the sentence. A triple-click in the left margin (when the mouse pointer is an up-and-to-the-right arrow) selects the entire document.

Outlook and Outlook Express

A triple-click within a paragraph in the text area selects the entire paragraph.

Text fields

A triple-click in a text entry field (a text entry widget) selects the entire line of text. This is a standard feature of the widgets themselves, so works in most applications, on Linux as well as Windows.

Quark Express

A triple-click selects the current line. Four clicks selects the current paragraph. Five clicks selects the whole document.{{cite web |access-date=2020-04-27}}

Web browsers

Firefox 3.0

In Firefox 3.0 a triple-click will highlight all text within any single HTML element on the page.

Firefox 3.5

In Firefox 3.5 and upwards, a triple-click selects the entire paragraph. If the triple click is inside a content editable element, and is on the first paragraph, it selects the text, and the opening tag of the element.

Internet Explorer 7

In Internet Explorer 7 a triple-click will highlight all text within any single HTML element on the page. If there is an article with multiple paragraphs one can highlight an entire paragraph with a triple-click.

Opera

In Opera a triple-click will select all text within a sentence while automatically popping up a list of commands to apply to the selected text. A quadruple-click will select all text within a single paragraph while keeping the aforementioned popup open.

Safari 3.0

In Safari 3.0 a triple-click will highlight all text within any single HTML element on the page. If there is an article with multiple paragraphs one can highlight an entire paragraph with a triple-click.

Chrome

In Google Chrome (and by extension ChromeOS), triple-clicking any part of a Web page will cause the nearest text node to be highlighted completely.

Adjusting speed

Adjusting speed of triple-click depends on the operating system:

• On Windows XP triple-clicking has the same time as double-click and changing the double-click setting affects triple-click behavior as well.

References

References

1. Allan Day. "GNOME Human Interface Guidelines". [[GNOME]].
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3. Jonathan Singer. (2016-07-09). "The Konsole Handbook". [[KDE]].
4. Thad McGinnis. (2016-04-09). "The KatePart Handbook". [[KDE]].
5. . ["QLineEdit.cpp"](https://codereview.qt-project.org/gitweb?p=qt/qtbase.git;a=blob;f=src/widgets/widgets/qlineedit.cpp). *[[Qt (software)*.