finding next occurance of string after first is found in textarea / textbox

[jason@cyberpine.com]

Hello.

I've got this js function I call from an html input button. It finds
the occurance of a string in a textbox, selects it and scrolls into
view.

JS newbie question, considering it's a function called from a buttons'
onlclick=, how can I change this code to search the textbox from the
cursor on to the end?

function searchtxt(n){
var what=n;
var d=document;
var el=d.getElement ById("editwindo w");
var r=el.createText Range();
var found = r.findText(what );
r.select();
r.scrollIntoVie w();
}


Many thanks for any help or info -

[rh]

Re: finding next occurance of string after first is found in textarea / textbox

jason@cyberpine .com wrote in message news:<ef0a04d7. 0310071126.7f6a 20ae@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> Hello.
>
> I've got this js function I call from an html input button. It finds
> the occurance of a string in a textbox, selects it and scrolls into
> view.
>
> JS newbie question, considering it's a function called from a buttons'
> onlclick=, how can I change this code to search the textbox from the
> cursor on to the end?
>
> function searchtxt(n){
> var what=n;
> var d=document;
> var el=d.getElement ById("editwindo w");
> var r=el.createText Range();
> var found = r.findText(what );
> r.select();
> r.scrollIntoVie w();
> }
>
>[/color]

In that case you want to create the range as:

var r = d.selection.cre ateRange();

And depending on the intended use of the search function, you may wish
to follow that with:

r.collapse(fals e)

to move the cursor beyond any selected text (which may have resulted
from a previous findText operation).

..\rh
[color=blue]
> Many thanks for any help or info -[/color]

[Ivo]

Re: finding next occurance of string after first is found in textarea / textbox

jason@cyberpine .com wrote[color=blue][color=green]
> > I've got this js function I call from an html input button. It finds
> > the occurance of a string in a textbox, selects it and scrolls into
> > view.
> >
> > JS newbie question, considering it's a function called from a buttons'
> > onlclick=, how can I change this code to search the textbox from the
> > cursor on to the end?[/color][/color]

onmousedown works on my Windows, but not my neighbour's Mac. But Mac
has a problem with document.select ion already..
<input type="button" onmousedown="th efunction()">
ALternatively, try the calculation onmouseover and using the reslt of
that onclick.