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Re: How get windows FIND() to work?

From Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups alt.computer, comp.lang.javascript, sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: How get windows FIND() to work?
Date 2020-08-04 04:49 +0200
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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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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? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2020-08-04 02:11 -0700
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 12:02 +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? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-03 19:55 -0700
    Re: How get windows FIND() to work? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-05 08:35 +0200
      Re: How get windows FIND() to work? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-05 11:19 -0700
        Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-08-06 02:15 +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
    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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