Hey everyone, I seem to not be able to use my keyboard arrow keys to scroll up and down on web pages. I know however, that my arrow keys work (they do in MS Word and other programs), but don't work here. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
My problem is when im playing a game (in my case im controlling a monkey) to move the monkey I have to use the arrow keys and when I pres left then let my finger off left it keeps going left, sometimes the fix was to press left then right but now when I press left then right it just keeps going right. same happens with up and down
i tried this with various other games and the problem persists
Smae problem here, so anoying I hate it! I can't find any way to fix this so, so far I can't play games that involve the arrow keys, really annoying because there are some great games out there!
Same here... I haven't seen any fixes, and I know that it isn't the keyboard or the flash games... This is the secon laptop that I have had this problem with...
Ok I also struggled for a while but this is how you do it : F7 does work but when you press it make sure have clicked once outside the flash game area. Awnser YES if it prompts whether you want to turn "Caret Browsing" on. Then click once in the game area and Wolla ... It works
I had the same problem for months and someone told me to press the F4 key and if that doesn't work try the F7 key. Just press it and see if it scrolls, if not go to the next one and try it. Good luck.
every time when you are about to play the game press on the box where thhe game is once u have pressed on the screen (with the mouse) press the tab button
that momentarily helped my problem but only because it was tabbing through the items on the screen. but once I clicked again (which I need to do for the game) it doesnt work anymore
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN YOU TRY TO PLAY AN GAME BUT YOU CANT USE THE DOWN ARROW KEY BECAUSE IT WILL MOVE DOWN THE GAME SCREEN WHILE IM PLAYING BUT YOU CAN USE ALL THE OTHER KEYS?
I was having similar problems. My up down arrows either wouldn't scroll in firefox or they would jump to the top and the bottom. So after researching, I just tried pressing function keys... and... voila, F7 did the trick. No idea why, but as suggested somewhere above, I'd start at F1 and go to the end (F12) one at a time and see if that does the trick.
ok I bought a laptop dell inspiron from ebay it was complpetely new I gusse only thing rong is the arrow keys dont work when I use my external keyboar it does but when I use the laptops keys it doesnt this has been acurring for 2yrs now and its realy starting to make me mad I cant play any games
Hi,
I'm experiencing the same issue except it's only happening on my igoogle home page. When I click the down or up arrow, it's as if I'm using page up or page dn.
I tried the control panel > internet options > advanced > check "smooth scrolling" (it was checked, so I unchecked and rechecked). Still no joy.
Any other ideas?
IE7
XP sp3
Thxs
I just had this problem on my laptop - found that if I connected a usb mouse with a scroll wheel and then use the wheel to scroll the page the arrow keys would then start working - after disconnecting the mouse they still work too . . . a very strange issue
If you are unable to scroll vertically or horizontally using the arrow keys on your keyboard, you may have accidentally enabled Caret Browsing.
Caret Browsing is enabled/disabled by pressing F7 and allows you to navigate a web page just as you would in a word processor. A caret appears somewhere in the document and can be moved with the arrow keys and used to select text and click links using only the keyboard. When pressing F7 while Caret Browsing is disabled, you will get a dialog that looks like this:
im having the same problem (but on all websites) and the hole control panel thing dident work for me but try using the "scr lk" or any thing that might mean scroll link. if your using a key board it might be with the f12 button ,if so press enter while pressing f12 if this does not work im clueless
I JUST CANT FIGURE IT OUT :'(+:-@!!!! I tried everything and nothing work!!! I was playing a game with arrow keys and I kept pressing up and down to dodge because I keep losing!!!
Why you guys ask? It keeps scrolling down so I can't see whats above and when I press up, Its annoying going up...!!
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