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Full Screen in Safari - Hide Everything?

Does anyone know how to or maybe a work around on how to hide everything in Safari, Tabs, address bar in full screen mode. It would be super clean

when doing a presentation. Kind of like in MS Windows with the auto hide feature in full screen, when you mouse up, it slides down to navigate and then slides up to disappear.


thanks


PS it sort of does it now, but I would like it to hide everything but the page I am using.

Posted on Jul 29, 2011 7:20 AM

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Posted on Jul 29, 2017 12:58 AM

My god. THANK YOU


I have searched for this for something like 5 years.


Why the *heck* do the developers of Safari think that placing this option at the top of the view menu is a good idea?


It should be down the bottom, near the words "ENTER FULL SCREEN".


I have never even seen that option before.


"Always show" are not the words you are looking for. You are looking for the word "Hide", because the **** tools are already showing.


It's all backwards.

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Oct 28, 2014 11:12 PM in response to MrManuel

Great tip.


Some tips about how to adding a bookmarklet, it is not so intuitive


1. Add any one web page to your Bookmark Favourites by pressing Command+D

2. When prompted choose Favourites as destination for 'add this page to'

3. Rename the title to FullScreen in the following input box as the bookmark name

4. Bring up the Bookmark editing page by pressing Option+Command+B

5. Find the FullScreen bookmark you just added and two finger tap on the entry to

bring up the menu and choose edit address and enter the following line

javascript:document.documentElement.webkitRequestFullScreen()

6. Reorganise the order of the bookmarks by drag&drop so your can use shortcuts like Command+1, 2,3...


done!

Nov 4, 2014 1:28 AM in response to Darren Hoo

You can also just select the javascript line and drag it to the toolbar.


When you drop the selection on the toolbar, a new bookmark will be created, ready to rename. Type "fullscreen" or what ever you want.


Hey presto! a bookmarklet for fullscreen!


Then and someone else said, drag it to the position 1 or 2 in the toolbar and you will have fullscreen at the press of a key, just like Chrome :-)


Thank you so much @Darren Hoo!


Sep 26, 2015 6:33 AM in response to Lady Engineer

Thank you everyone for sharing workarounds. The JavaScript workaround is working in Version 8.0.8 as of when I am writing this, in somewhat messy way - the entire visible screen will be animated to left (as the OS creates a new desktop) with weird blackness coming in and then the same page will appear, scrolled to top.


Though this workaround does the job, it does not delivery a good user experience. If anyone at Safari development team is reading this, we users would like them to consider this as a feature. It can be useful in many cases including presenting the website to someone to simply viewing photographic websites in a true full-screen mode on large & beautiful iMac screens. The security risk (of user not knowing on what page he/she is) can be minimised by temporarily popping-down the address bar while the page is loading (e.g. user has clicked a link).


Cheers!

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