• 12 parts
  • Checked September 2026

Parts of a Browser

The top of a browser window enlarged, then the whole window with a page in it.

Parts of a Browser

Name Date

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Tab
  2. Close button
  3. New tab button
  4. Back button
  5. Forward button
  6. Reload button
  7. Address bar
  8. Bookmark button
  9. Menu button
  10. Bookmarks bar
  11. Web page
  12. Scroll bar

Drawn for this site on 2026-09-30 from plain geometry. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

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All 12 parts on the diagram

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Top of the window 9

  1. Tab Each open page gets a tab. Click one to switch pages.
  2. Close button Click the X to close that tab.
  3. New tab button It opens a new blank tab.
  4. Back button It takes you to the page you were on before.
  5. Forward button After going back, it takes you forward again.
  6. Reload button It loads the current page again.
  7. Address bar It shows the page's address. Type a new one to go there.
  8. Bookmark button Click the star to save this page as a bookmark.
  9. Menu button It opens the browser's menu, with history and settings.

Whole window 3

  1. Bookmarks bar A row of bookmarks, one click from any page.
  2. Web page The page you asked for is shown here.
  3. Scroll bar Drag it to move up and down a long page.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-09-30, a name kept only where two independent sources use it. (1) GCFGlobal, Internet Basics: Using a Web Browser, read in the Internet Archive copy of 20 May 2024, http://web.archive.org/web/20240520092827/https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetbasics/using-a-web-browser/1/ (address bar; Back and Forward buttons; the Refresh button reloads the current page; tabs in one browser window, closed with the X, a new blank tab from the button to the right of the open tabs; bookmarks, also known as favorites, made with the star; history and settings from the icon in the upper right corner; all browsers work in basically the same way). (2) Wikipedia, text only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser (tabs, back and forward buttons, a refresh or reload button, the address bar, with the search bar merged into it in most browsers, bookmarks, menu), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_bar (also location bar or URL bar), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmark_(World_Wide_Web) (the star icon; the bookmarks bar, or favorites bar) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrollbar . (3) A browser maker's help pages, https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/188842 and https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2391819 (address bar, bookmark, bookmarks bar, tab strip, new tab, closing a tab, the menu at the top right). (4) MDN Web Docs, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Environment_setup/Browsing_the_web , https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Viewport and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scrollbars_styling (address bar; the part of the document shown in the browser window; the scrollbar and its draggable thumb). The window is a generic layout drawn for this site; no program is named or copied. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-09-30 from plain geometry; nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

The parts of a browser are the same in every program, though each one draws them a little differently. This made-up window shows the parts of a web browser you use most, with no real program copied.

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The top of the window

Numbers 1 to 3 are on the tab strip: a tab, its close button and the new tab button. Numbers 4 to 9 are on the toolbar below: the back, forward and reload buttons, the address bar, the bookmark button and the menu button.

The whole window

Numbers 10 to 12: the bookmarks bar, the web page and the scroll bar. Type an address in the address bar and press Enter, and the browser loads that page into the big area below.

  • Your browser may put these parts in slightly different places, but every browser has them.
  • Open a link in a new tab and the first page stays open in its own tab.

Questions and answers

What is at the top of a browser window?

Tabs come first, one for each open page. Under them is the toolbar, with the back, forward and reload buttons, the address bar and the menu button. Many browsers can also show a bookmarks bar under that.

What is the difference between the address bar and a search box?

The address bar takes a page's exact address, its URL. A search box sends your words to a search engine. In most browsers today the two are one box that does both.

What does the reload button do?

It loads the current page again. If a page stops working, reloading it is the first thing to try. Some browsers call it the refresh button.

What is a bookmark in a browser?

A saved link to a page you want to visit again. Click the star to make one. Some browsers call bookmarks favorites.

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