Old Cool Javascript Find on this Page...

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1. Posted By: John - - December 3, 2007, 8:55 pm

I love the script but I'm no fan of the floating DIV. I've been using a similar find-in-page script that has fewer features (no "Find Previous," for example) but works well in frames, which is what I use. The search text is entered in one frame, and the text to be searched lives in another frame.

Is there any chance that this script could be adapted for a frames environment?

2. Posted By: Jeff - - December 4, 2007, 10:38 am

John,

I'm sure this script could be changed to use frames. You would just have to turn off the floating DIV functions and put it in a frames instead.

3. Posted By: John - - December 5, 2007, 9:56 am

Hi Jeff,

Well, I gave it a try and I'm getting all sorts of errors. I think the problem is that the script doesn't know where to find the text to be searched (the other script that I mentioned required me to change a variable to include the frame name where the text to be searched was located). Is there something that you could add to the script so that a frame name could be added that would eliminate these errors? Thanks so much for whatever help you can offer.

4. Posted By: Will - - December 5, 2007, 2:25 pm

Hi, great bit of javascript!

I like how the DIV opens at the top of the page but it would be so much better if it dropped down to stay in view when found text is lower down the page. (does that make sense?)

Basically when searching for text the page scrolls down to display the found text, at this point the DIV needs to be re-positioned automatically (to the top of what is now in view).

That way when what you can quickly search for another term without scrolling right back up to the top of the page, (lots of users will not know to press home pgup etc.

Let me know what you think.

Will.

5. Posted By: junji - - December 27, 2007, 1:15 pm

you mean something like this:

greenhotels.com/members_beta1.html

just use arizona to see the CSS works

6. Posted By: Salvatore Bancheri - - January 5, 2008, 4:54 pm

I like the find script but it does not work in my page. The pop-up window is to big... and it does not move when I scroll down the rest of the page.

Any idea what I need to do?

7. Posted By: Stewart O'Marah - - January 10, 2008, 9:37 am

The Script works well enough until I put in a search keyword that is in my expandable horizontal javascript navigation menu, then it throws an 800a025e error and does not continue searching after that. Is there a way to omit the javascript from the search?

example of menu option that causes issue:
createMenu("Resources", "Resources");
addMenuItem("Resources", "HP Legal Web", "http://legalweb.corp.hp.com/legal/");
addMenuItem("Resources", "Ethics and Compliance Office", "http://ca.corp.hp.com/cser/obp/");

8. Posted By: Kika - - January 31, 2008, 11:26 am

Hi All,

This script is great! Thanks a lot. I am currently using it and it is flicking in my browser...Anybody has the same issue? If so, How did fixed it?

Thanks,
Kika

9. Posted By: annie - - May 23, 2008, 1:49 am

Hi Jeff,,the script is very good. But when you click the next or previous button without a text to search (this is only in firefox), the built in window.find appears. Then if you typed any text that is not in the content(in firefox only),it still displays TRUE instead of FALSE. Is it because of the built in window.find in firefox?How can this be fixed?anyway,,your script is very good!

10. Posted By: annie - - June 4, 2008, 9:35 pm

hi jeff,,this is me again..I have a suggestion with the problem in firefox,where the built in find window appears everytime we press the next and previous button with the textbox empty.Why don't use the alert command to alert users to type a text to find first?This is only in firefox because in ie, the window works okay.

Can we call the javascript function(find window)without using the button?It appears onload?

Thank you very much for the prompt reply last may 24!

11. Posted By: annie - - June 5, 2008, 10:30 pm

Hi Jeff, it still doesn't work in firefox. I've checked the 'new' code, but it wasn't changed. Anyway, I decided to use the alert command, and I've also found a way to display the box onload. Thanks for the information! The script is cool indeed!

12. Posted By: annie - - June 6, 2008, 10:59 pm

Thanks Jeff! It worked...

13. Posted By: piznigley - - July 12, 2008, 1:48 am

Thanks Jeff I used every "find on page" code there was until i stumbled on your script. excellant.
please email me on updates.

14. Posted By: Woolyss - - October 25, 2008, 11:13 am

Thank you Jeff for your script. It's really interesting. I experimented it.

I've made another one. It use the famous searchhi. I modified it. Now, there is auto-scroll on the first word found.

Find on this page... NEW VERSION

15. Posted By: amul - - November 19, 2008, 5:59 am

Thanks a lot for the script...
Its working fine...

16. Posted By: kostas - - January 1, 2009, 10:00 am

hi I have noticed in firefox when using tables I have to click on the table to focus the search or else it wont find anything.
Also on firefox if I do not click the table to focus, I have to click find next (it does not find anything) and then when I click find prev, it finds the keyword without clicking on the table. a bit strange, so I used the build in function for the firefox.
But I like the div window so could you please fix this?
Thanks

17. Posted By: kanjo - - January 7, 2009, 10:37 am

Has anyone modified this script to enable it to search for text in an embedded frame ?

18. Posted By: juan - jgstper@suddenlink.net - March 31, 2009, 7:56 am

when i use the script the div flickers, similar to what kika was experiencing any one have the solution ?

19. Posted By: Jeff - - April 1, 2009, 12:02 am

Do you have a link to your page? I can try to look at it and see what the problem is. The only time I had it flicker (that I can remember) is when I accidently put two "Find on this page" buttons on the page by adding the javascript statement twice. This shouldn't be done. The find.js file explains that if you want two find buttons on one page then you need to add it a different way.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com

20. Posted By: Rick - - April 2, 2009, 12:49 am

Jeff,

I love the way that the script works on your site, but alas I am not very familiar with javascrpit. I would love to incorporate your script into my website www.trailershowroom.com ( more specifically on this page: http://www.trailershowroom.com/master_enclosed_options.htm )

I already have a page search function there, but it isn't very good. I have downloaded find.js but now I don't know what to do with it. Should I open it with wordpad and paste it's contents into the html of the specific webpage that I want to use it on? Should I upload the find.js file to my webserver? Could you please provide a little more detailed information as to how to incorporate your script into my webpage?

Thank you very much!

Rick

21. Posted By: Rick - - April 3, 2009, 10:59 pm

Jeff,

Never mind..........Got it.

I have tested it in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. It seems to work well in all three.

Thanks,

Rick

22. Posted By: T - - May 8, 2009, 5:58 pm

Can it find the string within iframe?

23. Posted By: Bomber - - July 2, 2009, 3:18 am

Very Very useful thanks a lot !!! working perfect in each Browser..Exactly what I need !!!!

24. Posted By: andy - - September 2, 2009, 2:12 pm

Hi. Has any one been able to make this script search a page automatically forward and back from a select list selection? I also need to have the find, search a page back and forth without a "find previous" button AND have the jump-to selection work.

Thanks for your help.

25. Posted By: Jeff - - September 8, 2009, 10:22 am

Hi Andy. If you or anyone else needs the script to search again back at the beginning of the document then you can download it here: find_custom2.js

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

26. Posted By: M - - September 23, 2009, 8:02 am

Hi Jeff,

I would like to highlight all the occurence of the text at the same time. Do you have a suggestion ?

Thx

27. Posted By: Augusto - - October 14, 2009, 11:26 am

Excelent work!
Thanks o Gracias! ;-)

28. Posted By: finduser - - December 20, 2009, 4:42 am

you should not return in find previous when finds < 2!
Set finds to 2 instead.

if (finds < 2) finds = 2;

29. Posted By: finduser - - December 20, 2009, 4:47 am

the complete modifications:
if (ie)
{
// if they found only 0 or 1 occurance then don't do anything
// because they haven't found enough to go backwards
if (finds < 2) finds = 2;
// Make finds variable go back to previous find
finds = finds - 2; // I don't know why I have to go back 2 : because you're doing a new find :-) which in fact is the equivalent to finds + 1

// move back to previously bookmarked position
try
{
txt.moveToBookmark(bookmark[finds]);
// select it
}
catch(e)
{

}
findit();
}

30. Posted By: finduser - - December 20, 2009, 4:59 am

Another big problem:
If you have a lot of elements with display:none or hidden IE crashes when you try to select the found object. That's a known bug. To solve this problem you have to use a try catch... Moreover: finds++ should only be called when we really can select!!! Here is my solution for this problem:



if (txt.findText(string)) // if found

{	

	// select() not only highlights the string but

	// it also moves the view to that location

	// prevent ie bug if selection is not on display

try

{

	txt.select(); 

	test.innerHTML=document.selection.createRange().parentElement().outerHTML;



	// we don't realy need it.

	txt.scrollIntoView();

	// moveStart('character') moves the position in the

	// text one character forward so that

}

31. Posted By: chacha - - August 4, 2010, 8:42 am

I'm trying out your in page search and it's working well so far. Is there a way I can make it case sensitive? I have State abbreviations on my site along with regular text. To look up California (CA) links for instance would take forever unless case sensitive. Thanks.

32. Posted By: Jeff - - August 7, 2010, 11:40 am

chacha,

There are two functions you would have to change to make it a case-sensitive search:
findText for IE and window.find for mozilla/firefox

Change line 97 of find.js from:

if (txt.findText(string)) // if found

to:

if (txt.findText(string, 0, 4)) // if found

Then for firefox change line 133 from:

test.innerHTML = window.find(string, false, false);

to:

test.innerHTML = window.find(string, true, false);

and for previous searches firefox needs line 182 changed from:

test.innerHTML = window.find(string, false, true);

to:

test.innerHTML = window.find(string, true, true);

Here is a link to more information on IE's findText: Microsoft findText
and here is a link for more information on Mozilla's window.find: mozilla window.find

Jeff

33. Posted By: Emerygjr - - August 22, 2010, 11:54 am

Can this be modified to highlight all occurrences of the search term, duplicating the Netscape option?

34. Posted By: pcg - - August 31, 2010, 11:52 pm

The script isn't working with Safari. Open this page with Safari, then try the sample find button in upper left of this page, enter a word to find, then click "Find Next" and the whole search box disappears. It only works with Safari if you use the Enter key, not the "Find Next" button. Any ideas anyone?

35. Posted By: Rob - - September 2, 2010, 7:16 pm

Hi Jeff,

Is there a way to implement this so that I can enter the search term(s) (with or without the popup window) that will then navigate to a specific (or next) page and perform the text search? Maybe open the target page in a new window and find the text there?

My page: http://www.oasections.com/ has a search bar, but it only works by redirecting to a specified page with anchor text, but I have a scrollable table that doesn't work with anchors.

Your version seems it would work much better.

Thanks.

-Rob

36. Posted By: Rob - - September 4, 2010, 10:02 am

actually, all I would need help with is:

1) embed the search into the page, instead of a floating div

2) pass the search variable to a new page and do the search there

Thanks!

37. Posted By: Jeff - - September 21, 2010, 12:42 pm

test

38. Posted By: Bob - - October 21, 2010, 10:49 am

This works in IE, but doesn't when loaded in chrome. The DIV box appears but after pressing the find next button the DIV disappears and nothing happens! any thoughts?

39. Posted By: Jack - - January 6, 2011, 6:41 am

Great script, thank you.
Tried it out on various popular browsers works well.

One question: How can I get it to work in Chrome (Google).
When the "next" button is pressed the search box disappears.
If the "previous" button is pressed it will search up to two occurrences from the bottom of the document, then it disappears.

Regards
Jack

40. Posted By: Alan - - January 25, 2011, 12:46 pm

John,

I love your "Find on this page" javascript but I am having a problem with it. I have it implemented inside a 'position:fixed' div.

As you scroll down the page, the div scrolls down even "faster" and soon disappears off the bottom, never to be seen again (unless you refresh the page)! If you scroll up (before it disappears), the div does not follow suit. If you are already scrolled down on the page and then click on the Find button, the div briefly appears and then disappears (I suspect it auto-scrolls below the bottom of the window).

Right now I have it on a development site and can't go "live" until I resolve this issue. The page on my dev site that uses this feature is:
http://schaevitzdev.org/content/squads/oursquads.html
where you can see the behavior I am describing. I would love any assistance you can provide in resolving it.

Thanks, Alan

41. Posted By: Alan - - January 25, 2011, 12:49 pm

Jeff,

My apologies. In my previous submission, I incorrectly addressed you as "John".

Regards,
Alan

42. Posted By: Jeff - - March 29, 2011, 12:36 pm

Alan, I think I can fix your problem. I changed the javascript to now dynamically create the DIV and attach it to the body of the DOM. This should work better than the way it was doing it before and creating the div inside of where you placed the call to the javascript file.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com

43. Posted By: Titou - - April 3, 2011, 6:43 am

Bonjour,

Votre script est tout � fait ce que je recherchais, � deux d�tails pr�s ...

1) Est il possible de le faire fonctionner avec Op�ra?
2) Est il possible de faire en sorte que la div popup soit centr�e sur la page malgr� le r�sultat de la recherche?
Merci
-------------------------------------

Your script is exactly what I was looking for, with two exceptions ...

1) Is it possible to make it work with Opera?
2) Is it possible to ensure that the popup div is centered on the page despite the outcome of research?
Thanks

44. Posted By: Shaun - - July 22, 2011, 9:58 pm

Hi Jeff

Your script is very cool!

I can get it to work in all browser except for Safari. In Safari, hitting Find Next after entering a search term closes the search window, and it won't highlight or scroll to the term even when it's definitely there on the page. However, the Find Previous button works.

Here is a test page I have set up:
www.billygoatkaraoke.com.au/searcher/test.html

Are you able to find a Safari quirk in there?

Cheers

Shaun

45. Posted By: Joe Batty - - September 20, 2011, 2:12 am

Hi Jess, i seem to be getting an error when i use your script on my page. Even though there are instances of the string i'm searching for i get the following error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C; Zune 4.7)
Timestamp: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:11:42 UTC

Message: Syntax error
Line: 185
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://#################/data-page.asp?PID=99

Message: Could not complete the operation due to error 800a025e.
Line: 107
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://#################/JS/find_custom2.js

Any Ideas?

46. Posted By: Jeff - - September 21, 2011, 10:08 am

@Joe Batty,

Unfortunately the programmers for Internet Explorer keep leaving bugs with text selection functions that are supposed to be built-in to Internet Explorer. This error seems to happen at different times with different versions of Internet Explorer. I have IE 8.0 but I do not have this bug at present. Some people have found that if they update Internet Explorer or if the update their .NET Framework then this error goes away.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com

47. Posted By: Peter - - October 4, 2011, 3:42 am

Hi Jeff -

very nice script! Thanks -

Is there a way to hide the top "find button" and only display the on within the HTML page ?

48. Posted By: Peter - - October 4, 2011, 3:53 am

Hi Jeff - I guess I found a solution e.g.

document.write('');

49. Posted By: Jim - - November 11, 2011, 2:05 pm

Nice script! Any idea why the find pop up box disapears when you click find next when using Safari?

50. Posted By: Anastasios - - November 15, 2011, 2:34 am

Hi, this script is really cool, can you please tell me if I can restrict the search only to a specific div of the page?

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