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How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-03 19:13 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 04:49 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 20:06 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 07:55 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-04 15:22 +1000
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 10:06 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 19:42 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 20:13 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-05 19:56 +1000
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 13:54 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-05 21:55 +1000
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 15:40 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:27 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-07 14:09 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:24 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:23 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:16 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-04 09:10 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-08-04 23:46 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-04 20:21 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-05 07:56 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 11:40 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-07 14:26 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-05 08:59 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-08-06 01:11 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-06 11:36 +1000
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-08-06 12:24 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:40 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-07 10:27 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-08 04:39 +0200
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-08-07 18:46 +1000
Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-05 08:32 +0200
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-03 19:13 -0700 |
| Subject | How get windows FIND() to work? |
| Message-ID | <kv3WG.33452$RN.31186@fx13.iad> |
Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78
Sample line used:
<a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a>
At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired
destination HTML.
BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way.
It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted
and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong document
and keyword was in middle).
Help?
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| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 04:49 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <hos0lkFaglnU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #11872 |
Robert Baer: > Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78 > > Sample line used: > <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a> > > At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired > destination HTML. > > BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way. If course not. Why should adding "?find=able" do that? Technically calling "downhole-measurements.html?find=able" will just open the document referred by "downhole-measurements.html" and pass the querystring "find=able" to the server. If the document was opened locally as file and not via HTTP then adding "?find=able" does nothing at all. > It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted > and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong document > and keyword was in middle). Then you need to build some server side script which reads the document and *adds* elements to highlight the places where the searched text was found. For example if you use PHP on the server the URL could be: find.php?document=downhole-measurements.html&text=able Then the script "find.php" will get the paramters "document" and "text", where "document" tells it which file to read and "text" which text to search for. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 20:06 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <CmpWG.247013$0W4.225640@fx42.iad> |
| In reply to | #11873 |
Arno Welzel wrote:
> Robert Baer:
>
>> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78
>>
>> Sample line used:
>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a>
>>
>> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired
>> destination HTML.
>>
>> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way.
>
> If course not. Why should adding "?find=able" do that?
>
> Technically calling "downhole-measurements.html?find=able" will just
> open the document referred by "downhole-measurements.html" and pass the
> querystring "find=able" to the server.
>
> If the document was opened locally as file and not via HTTP then adding
> "?find=able" does nothing at all.
>
>> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted
>> and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong document
>> and keyword was in middle).
>
> Then you need to build some server side script which reads the document
> and *adds* elements to highlight the places where the searched text was
> found. For example if you use PHP on the server the URL could be:
>
> find.php?document=downhole-measurements.html&text=able
>
> Then the script "find.php" will get the paramters "document" and "text",
> where "document" tells it which file to read and "text" which text to
> search for.
>
Sounds like that approach requires me to edit a few thousand FINDs at
minimum.
What added fuss is required for the document?
Also, what does this find.php script look like?
Thamks
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| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
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| Date | 2020-08-05 07:55 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <houvueFtpm8U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #11882 |
Robert Baer:
> Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Robert Baer:
>>
>>> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78
>>>
>>> Sample line used:
>>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a>
>>>
>>> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired
>>> destination HTML.
>>>
>>> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way.
>>
>> If course not. Why should adding "?find=able" do that?
>>
>> Technically calling "downhole-measurements.html?find=able" will just
>> open the document referred by "downhole-measurements.html" and pass the
>> querystring "find=able" to the server.
>>
>> If the document was opened locally as file and not via HTTP then adding
>> "?find=able" does nothing at all.
>>
>>> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted
>>> and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong document
>>> and keyword was in middle).
>>
>> Then you need to build some server side script which reads the document
>> and *adds* elements to highlight the places where the searched text was
>> found. For example if you use PHP on the server the URL could be:
>>
>> find.php?document=downhole-measurements.html&text=able
>>
>> Then the script "find.php" will get the paramters "document" and "text",
>> where "document" tells it which file to read and "text" which text to
>> search for.
>>
> Sounds like that approach requires me to edit a few thousand FINDs at
> minimum.
> What added fuss is required for the document?
>
> Also, what does this find.php script look like?
It will open the file, read the content, does a strpos() on the search
term and add <span class="found">...</span> around the found word. You
may also need to add the "found" CSS rule like this:
.found {
background-color: #ff0;
}
If you want to keep the URL "downhole-measurements.html?find=able" you
can also do this with a script in the document itself which takes the
URL (window.location.href), extracts the "find" parameter and calls
either window.find() or walks the DOM tree to add a <span
class="found">...</span> around the search hits - but in any case you
need *code* to do the finding. There is no solution which just works by
adding something to the URL.
--
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de
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| From | Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 15:22 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <mg6WG.247317$eN2.214699@fx47.iad> |
| In reply to | #11872 |
On 4/8/20 12:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: > Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78 > > Sample line used: > <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a> > > At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired > destination HTML. > > BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way. > It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted > and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong document > and keyword was in middle). You won't get highlighting without adding Javascript. I suggest you use a fragment identifier: <a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements</a> because that gets passed to the browser, which will scroll to the matching <a name="able"> tag. The fragment string is also available to Javascript by using var fragment = location.hash; // Returns '#able' You could use that to highlight the appropriate text. Clifford Heath.
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 10:06 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <VAgWG.100527$Vp4.97068@fx44.iad> |
| In reply to | #11874 |
Clifford Heath wrote: > On 4/8/20 12:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78 >> >> Sample line used: >> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a> >> >> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired >> destination HTML. >> >> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way. >> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted >> and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong >> document and keyword was in middle). > > You won't get highlighting without adding Javascript. > > I suggest you use a fragment identifier: > > <a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements</a> > > because that gets passed to the browser, which will scroll to the > matching <a name="able"> tag. The fragment string is also available to > Javascript by using > > var fragment = location.hash; // Returns '#able' > > You could use that to highlight the appropriate text. > > Clifford Heath. Does not that require EVERY instance of "able" in every document to be tagged? Or at minimum, the first instance to be tagged? MUCH easier and saner to (somehow) get the browser FIND() to do its thing; even IE8 dew that. Thanks
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| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 19:42 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <hotkvkFl7s3U3@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #11877 |
Robert Baer: > Clifford Heath wrote: >> On 4/8/20 12:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >>> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78 >>> >>> Sample line used: >>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a> >>> >>> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired >>> destination HTML. >>> >>> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way. >>> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted >>> and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong >>> document and keyword was in middle). >> >> You won't get highlighting without adding Javascript. >> >> I suggest you use a fragment identifier: >> >> <a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements</a> >> >> because that gets passed to the browser, which will scroll to the >> matching <a name="able"> tag. The fragment string is also available to >> Javascript by using >> >> var fragment = location.hash; // Returns '#able' >> >> You could use that to highlight the appropriate text. >> >> Clifford Heath. > Does not that require EVERY instance of "able" in every document to > be tagged? > Or at minimum, the first instance to be tagged? No. You still need to write *code* to do this. > MUCH easier and saner to (somehow) get the browser FIND() to do its > thing; even IE8 dew that. Then do it. What did you try so far? What's your problem with it? -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 20:13 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <JtpWG.83602$lI.57095@fx22.iad> |
| In reply to | #11874 |
Clifford Heath wrote:
> On 4/8/20 12:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote:
>> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78
>>
>> Sample line used:
>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a>
>>
>> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired
>> destination HTML.
>>
>> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way.
>> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted
>> and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong
>> document and keyword was in middle).
>
> You won't get highlighting without adding Javascript.
>
> I suggest you use a fragment identifier:
>
> <a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements</a>
>
> because that gets passed to the browser, which will scroll to the
> matching <a name="able"> tag. The fragment string is also available to
> Javascript by using
>
> var fragment = location.hash; // Returns '#able'
>
> You could use that to highlight the appropriate text.
>
> Clifford Heath.
You mean "without adding Javascript" refers to the document.
Adding matching <a name="able"> tags all over the document is not
sane; there are thousands of words needed to be found/highlighted.
Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice
brwser FIND().
Thanks
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| From | Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> |
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| Date | 2020-08-05 19:56 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <hnvWG.290236$PN2.221940@fx48.iad> |
| In reply to | #11883 |
On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: > Clifford Heath wrote: >> On 4/8/20 12:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >>> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78 >>> >>> Sample line used: >>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a> >>> >>> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the desired >>> destination HTML. >>> >>> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way. >>> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got highlighted >>> and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think loong >>> document and keyword was in middle). >> >> You won't get highlighting without adding Javascript. >> >> I suggest you use a fragment identifier: >> >> <a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements</a> >> >> because that gets passed to the browser, which will scroll to the >> matching <a name="able"> tag. The fragment string is also available to >> Javascript by using >> >> var fragment = location.hash; // Returns '#able' >> >> You could use that to highlight the appropriate text. >> >> Clifford Heath. > You mean "without adding Javascript" refers to the document. > Adding matching <a name="able"> tags all over the document is not > sane; there are thousands of words needed to be found/highlighted. > > Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice > brwser FIND(). I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. CH
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| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
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| Date | 2020-08-05 13:54 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <hovkvjF3hv9U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #11889 |
Clifford Heath: > On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: [...] >> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >> brwser FIND(). > > I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. That was already mentioned: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de
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| From | Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> |
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| Date | 2020-08-05 21:55 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <j7xWG.59625$BL.50325@fx16.iad> |
| In reply to | #11890 |
On 5/8/20 9:54 pm, Arno Welzel wrote: > Clifford Heath: > >> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: > [...] >>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >>> brwser FIND(). >> >> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. > > That was already mentioned: > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> What part of "no standard way" is difficult to understand?
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| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
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| Date | 2020-08-05 15:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <hovr6vFbgvU3@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #11891 |
Clifford Heath: > On 5/8/20 9:54 pm, Arno Welzel wrote: >> Clifford Heath: >> >>> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >> [...] >>>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >>>> brwser FIND(). >>> >>> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. >> >> That was already mentioned: >> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> > > What part of "no standard way" is difficult to understand? Did I claim, that this is standard? -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-06 12:27 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <oQYWG.249814$eN2.234577@fx47.iad> |
| In reply to | #11892 |
Arno Welzel wrote: > Clifford Heath: > >> On 5/8/20 9:54 pm, Arno Welzel wrote: >>> Clifford Heath: >>> >>>> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >>> [...] >>>>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >>>>> brwser FIND(). >>>> >>>> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. >>> >>> That was already mentioned: >>> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> >> >> What part of "no standard way" is difficult to understand? > > Did I claim, that this is standard? > > May i quote DIRECTLY from that site: *QUOTE* Non-standard This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future. Note: Support for Window.find() might change in future versions of Gecko. See bug 672395. *END QUOTE*
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| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
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| Date | 2020-08-07 14:09 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <hp4uiuF2c2sU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #11900 |
Robert Baer: > Arno Welzel wrote: >> Clifford Heath: >> >>> On 5/8/20 9:54 pm, Arno Welzel wrote: >>>> Clifford Heath: >>>> >>>>> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >>>>>> brwser FIND(). >>>>> >>>>> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. >>>> >>>> That was already mentioned: >>>> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> >>> >>> What part of "no standard way" is difficult to understand? >> >> Did I claim, that this is standard? >> >> > May i quote DIRECTLY from that site: > *QUOTE* > Non-standard Exactly! I did never say, that this is standard. I mentioned it so it is clear that this is NOT standard! -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-06 12:24 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <uNYWG.107334$TO4.28125@fx05.iad> |
| In reply to | #11891 |
Clifford Heath wrote: > On 5/8/20 9:54 pm, Arno Welzel wrote: >> Clifford Heath: >> >>> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: >> [...] >>>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >>>> brwser FIND(). >>> >>> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. >> >> That was already mentioned: >> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> > > What part of "no standard way" is difficult to understand? Talk to "moz".
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-06 12:23 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <DMYWG.107333$TO4.102461@fx05.iad> |
| In reply to | #11890 |
Arno Welzel wrote: > Clifford Heath: > >> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote: > [...] >>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice >>> brwser FIND(). >> >> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated. > > That was already mentioned: > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find> > > ...and....i also mentioned to add all that in every document for thousands of keywords into a goodly batch of documents is not exactly sane. Thanks
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-06 12:16 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <ZFYWG.171924$%p.18563@fx33.iad> |
| In reply to | #11889 |
Clifford Heath wrote:
> On 5/8/20 1:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote:
>> Clifford Heath wrote:
>>> On 4/8/20 12:13 pm, Robert Baer wrote:
>>>> Environment: Win7.1 Firefox 78
>>>>
>>>> Sample line used:
>>>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole
>>>> Measurements</a>
>>>>
>>>> At least execution transfers from the calling HTML to the
>>>> desired destination HTML.
>>>>
>>>> BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any way.
>>>> It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got
>>>> highlighted and the first keyword was presented on the screen (think
>>>> loong document and keyword was in middle).
>>>
>>> You won't get highlighting without adding Javascript.
>>>
>>> I suggest you use a fragment identifier:
>>>
>>> <a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements</a>
>>>
>>> because that gets passed to the browser, which will scroll to the
>>> matching <a name="able"> tag. The fragment string is also available
>>> to Javascript by using
>>>
>>> var fragment = location.hash; // Returns '#able'
>>>
>>> You could use that to highlight the appropriate text.
>>>
>>> Clifford Heath.
>> You mean "without adding Javascript" refers to the document.
>> Adding matching <a name="able"> tags all over the document is not
>> sane; there are thousands of words needed to be found/highlighted.
>>
>> Better to get the browser to do its thing; even IE8 does a nice
>> brwser FIND().
>
> I know of no standard way that find-in-page behaviour can be automated.
>
> CH
>
Other than "forcing" a browser to doa nominally manual search, that
seems to be true.
However, the grand expert Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn may have given us
highlight.js as an answer
Thanks
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| From | "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 09:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rgb1m6$18k6$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
| In reply to | #11872 |
Robert, > Sample line used: > < a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements< /a> I think you are looking for < a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements< /a> with in that "downhole-measurements.html" document the following line just above the "able" chapter < a name="able"> (remove the spaces after the "<" symbols) Regards, Rudy Wieser
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| From | "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 23:46 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <XnsAC0FF1EBE7D62eejj99@194.109.6.166> |
| In reply to | #11875 |
"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote on 04 Aug 2020 in comp.lang.javascript: > Robert, > >> Sample line used: >> < a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements < /a> > > I think you are looking for > > < a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements< /a> > > with in that "downhole-measurements.html" document the following line just > above the "able" chapter > > < a name="able"> > > (remove the spaces after the "<" symbols) > > Regards, > Rudy Wieser Google Chrome 84 and up, desktop and mobile, let you highlight "This text" from the url-string: https://example.org/page.html#:~:text=This%20text -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
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| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
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| Date | 2020-08-04 20:21 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <1BpWG.140475$7vd.62888@fx35.iad> |
| In reply to | #11881 |
Evertjan. wrote:
> "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote on 04 Aug 2020 in
> comp.lang.javascript:
>
>> Robert,
>>
>>> Sample line used:
>>> < a href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements
> < /a>
>>
>> I think you are looking for
>>
>> < a href="downhole-measurements.html#able">Downhole Measurements< /a>
>>
>> with in that "downhole-measurements.html" document the following line just
>> above the "able" chapter
>>
>> < a name="able">
>>
>> (remove the spaces after the "<" symbols)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rudy Wieser
>
> Google Chrome 84 and up, desktop and mobile,
> let you highlight "This text" from the url-string:
>
> https://example.org/page.html#:~:text=This%20text
>
>
>
>
Even IE8 FIND() works; highlights all found keywords dynamically,
allows previous/next.
Seems most browsers support this rather well.
Thanks
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