Find button???

**jazztie** · Nov 6, 2002 03:03

I'm looking for a script that works like the Ctrl-F function in MIE.

I have a long list of names on a webpage, and instead of telling visitors to use the Ctrl-F function I would like to have a little button or link that basically does the same.

Is this possible?

Any help is appreciated

Jazz...

**jofa** · Nov 7, 2002 02:46

This example is, as you can see, working in Mozilla, NS4 & IE4+

Code:

<html>
  <head>
    <script language="javascript">
      function search(text)
      {
        if(!text) return false;
        var ua = navigator.userAgent;
        if(/Mozilla\/5\.0/.test(ua) && !/Netscape/.test(ua) || /Mozilla\/4/.test(ua) && !/MSIE/.test(ua))
        {
          find(text);
        }
        else if(/Mozilla\/4/.test(ua) && /MSIE/.test(ua))
        {
          var body = document.body.createTextRange();
          if(body.findText(text)) body.select();
        }
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body onload="search(prompt('Text to search for?', 'document'));">
    <p>Some text in the body of the document.</p>
  </body>
</html>

**jazztie** · Nov 7, 2002 03:39

Thanx Jofa,

This works on the body onLoad command... but it doesn't seem to work on a 'a href' OnClick command:

<a href="#" onClick="search(prompt('Text to search for?', 'document'));">search</a>

or

<a href="#" onClick="search(prompt('Text to search for?', ''));">search</a>

am I missing something here?

Jazz

**jazztie** · Nov 7, 2002 07:56

Is it also possible to 'highlight' all the words in the text that match the search-criteria?

Or maybe, would it be possible to have a 'next' and 'previous' button to search for the next match?

Jazz

**Bill Posters** · Nov 7, 2002 08:55

Re: Highlighting occurances of seach terms.

It might be an idea to see how Google does it for their cached search results .

Just an idea.

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