Full Screen in Safari - Hide Everything?

Add this snippet as a Bookmarklet to your Favorites and rename it to FullScreen

javascript:document.documentElement.webkitRequestFullScreen()

then click on the bookmark will enter fullscreen mode that hides everything

Quit fullscreen by pressing the ESCAPE key.

Whoa - that's an interesting solution. Too bad it doesn't allow for auto-reveal of the toolbar when mousing at the top of the screen.

Worked well! The other solutions didn't work for me (OS X 10.9.3 / Safari 7.0.4).

I had to figure out how to make the snipplet; I added this page to my favorites and then right-click on it to change the address.

Hello,

unfortunately I am trying to get rid of the toolbar by using the presented "workarounds".

Wouldn't it me much easier to just hide everything if I have chosen, hide toolbar, hide favorites bar, hide status bar?

I mean "full screen" is full screen and not half way "full-screen".

The right click above the address bar doesn't work with the latest up-to-date super-duper technology.

I got it ... simply use Google Chrome and choose " Enter Presentation Mode".

That's great, thanks! And if it's the 1st favorite, then Command-1 will run it (2nd favorite is accessed by Command-2, etc.)

Thanks, Darren Hoo!

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!

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!

Also, if you'd rather not have a javascript bookmarklet as one of your favorites, you can always just add it to anywhere in your bookmarks and use System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts to manually create a shortcut (OS X Yosemite: Create keyboard shortcuts for apps).

That really is helpful. It's ridiculous that Apple doesn't build a presentation mode into Safari, but that really does the trick. I just replaced my drive and lost this script; then spent hours searching the web to no avail. The solution I found was this same post I found last year. Thank you!

Thanks a lot Darren!

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!

In OSX El Capitan... Safari Version 9.0, the option is available in the "view" menu item and then uncheck " Always Show Toolbar in Fullscreen" option... make sure you are in Fullscreen mode before of course.

Don't know if earlier Safari versions had this option.