Why does the blinking line used for typing never go away?

Question

When I type in word or something, of course it is there guiding me, but when I am on the internet, why does it start blinking wherever you last click the mouse as if it was a text document that you could edit? It gets annoying because I am not used to it being there and I would just rather it not appear every time I am on the internet and I click the mouse on a random place on the page.

Answer 1

its letting you know where your at so when you do need to type you know exactly where your going to start typing or where you left off.

disable it:
control panel
printers and other hardware devices
keyboard
slide that second slider back to none.

Answer 2

Some websites are created in a manner which enables users to actually take items off the page and download to your system or copy and paste into other application. You can copy and paste items off the web pages. When the curser blinks this indicates the page is open to such editing or grabbing of items off the page.

You can take photos, graphics, words, paragraphs, etc, from such web pages. I actually enjoy this ability, as I have found some super graphics and have copy and pasted items of interest into my eMail program and sent them to friends and family.

Hope this helps, good luck and have a great weekend.

Answer 3

It is called the insertion point--it is the active point on the document.

Answer 4

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