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| Subject | Re: How get windows FIND() to work? |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.computer, comp.lang.javascript, sci.electronics.design |
| References | <kv3WG.33452$RN.31186@fx13.iad> <hos0lkFaglnU1@mid.individual.net> |
| From | Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> |
| Message-ID | <CmpWG.247013$0W4.225640@fx42.iad> (permalink) |
| Date | 2020-08-04 20:06 -0700 |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
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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Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:27 -0700
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Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:24 -0700
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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
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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
Re: Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-05 21:59 -0700
Re: Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-08 04:22 +0200
Re: Highlighting text Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-06 12:06 -0700
Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-06 12:40 -0700
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