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 19:42 +0200
Message-ID	<hotkvkFl7s3U3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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?



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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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