Re: alternate way?

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject	Re: alternate way?
Date	Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:57:28 +0200
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JJ wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:08:05 -0700, Robert Baer wrote:
>>    How about user picking out [from a selection] a "keyword' (which will
>> be one word) and having a magic combination of simple HTML, CSS, and js
>> to pass that onto the browser keyboard find function [as if one had done
>> a <ctrl>f and then typed in that "keyword"]?
> 
> One problem: there is no function to bring up the browser's Find feature.
> There's no way to bring it up programmatically via JavaScript which is
> executed in the context of the opened HTML document. 

That is simply not true.  window.find() – a method, not a function – exists 
since time immemorial, is well-documented, and still works in recent Web 
browsers.  The result of calling it and finding the specified text string is 
selecting the next occurrence of the text in the document and moving the 
focus to it.  It returns “true” if the text was found, “false” otherwise.

However, using it is not without problems:

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find>

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Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-07-24 00:08 -0700
  Re: alternate way? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-07-24 09:45 +0200
    Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-07-24 12:16 -0700
      Re: alternate way? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-07-25 14:42 +0200
        Re: alternate way? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-07-25 20:20 -0400
        Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-03 15:01 -0700
  Re: alternate way? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-07-24 19:27 +0700
    Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-07-24 12:21 -0700
      Re: alternate way? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-07-25 20:06 +0700
        Re: alternate way? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-07-25 11:29 -0700
          Re: alternate way? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-07-26 20:42 +0700
          Re: alternate way? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 04:38 +0200
            Re: alternate way? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-03 19:43 -0700
    Re: alternate way? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-07-25 00:57 +0200

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