Highlighting with window.find

[Yves-Alain NICOLLET]

With Netscape, you can use window.find to highlight some text. But it
does so only on the first occurence.

Has someone a solution to highlight all the occurences?

And to add some complexity to my simple question, has someone a
solution compatible with both Netscape and Internet Explorer?

Thanks.

[Duncan M.]

Re: Highlighting with window.find

"Yves-Alain NICOLLET" wrote[color=blue]
> With Netscape, you can use window.find to highlight some text. But it
> does so only on the first occurence.
> Has someone a solution to highlight all the occurences?
>
> And to add some complexity to my simple question, has someone a
> solution compatible with both Netscape and Internet Explorer?[/color]

The find functionality of the browsers I know highlight one occurance at the
time. These javascript attempt to mimic that:

http://www.hypergurl.com/searchpage.html

http://tech.irt.org/articles/js041/

Another approach is to call up the finf dialog itself (NS only):

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/win_find.html

To highlight all occurances simultaneously, see

http://4umi.com/code/highlighttext.htm

HTH
Ivo

[Yves-Alain NICOLLET]

Re: Highlighting with window.find

The last item (highlight all occurences simultaneously) is *almost* what
I'm looking for. Almost, because it works only with MSIE. I need a
solution compatible with at least MSIE and NS.
Thanks anyway.



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[Ivo]

Re: Highlighting with window.find

"Yves-Alain NICOLLET" wrote[color=blue]
> Ivo wrote[color=green]
> > To highlight all occurances simultaneously, see
> > http://4umi.com/code/highlighttext.htm[/color]
> The last item (highlight all occurences simultaneously) is *almost* what
> I'm looking for. Almost, because it works only with MSIE. I need a
> solution compatible with at least MSIE and NS.[/color]

Sorry, I don't know about Netscape, but to say the script is IE-only is an
insult. It also delivers the goods in Mozilla (1.0 even). But if you find or
make something better, I 'd be very interested to hear it. Working as it
does with standard DOM methods, I would guess there 's a bug with the script
in NS which you might be able to identify and solve...
Ivo

[Yves-Alain NICOLLET]

Re: Highlighting with window.find

Yves-Alain.Nicollet@ bull.net (Yves-Alain NICOLLET) wrote in message news:<72b557d7. 0404010708.343a 5957@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> With Netscape, you can use window.find to highlight some text. But it
> does so only on the first occurence.
>
> Has someone a solution to highlight all the occurences?
>
> And to add some complexity to my simple question, has someone a
> solution compatible with both Netscape and Internet Explorer?
>
> Thanks.[/color]

I received a reply from Developersdex <newsgroups@dev elopersdex.com> ,
pointing me to

http://4umi.com/code/highlighttext.htm

which seems a good demo for what I want to do.
Unfortunately, this script does not work with NS(4.7 nor 4.8) but
works with MSIE, Mozilla and NS7. I need to have a solution also
working with NS4.7 or NS4.8.
Any help *very much* appreciated...