How to find a text string on a web page in Safari

[JohnACalder]

When the page is loaded I have a function that runs on the OnLoad event. This function searches for a specific text string. WHen it finds the string it highlights the string.
I can do this in IE using createTextRange. I can do it in Firefox using x.find(str...), but both fail in Safari (both Panther and Leopard).
Can any one point me at some good documentation for this?

 

[nickdel]

John, I dont think there is a direct equivalent however you should be able to emulate this by using window.getSelection which will work in Safari

Nick

 

[JohnACalder]

Well...I'm new to this but I think getSelection returns the user selection. In my case I need a function to: 1) locate the string, 2) highlight it, and 3) scroll the page (if necessary) so that the string is in the viewing portion of the window without any user intervention.
I can use indexOf() to find the string on the page but I can't figure out how to hightlight (I suppose I could wrap the string with some tags to highlight it, but I'm still left with the scrolling part. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It looks like you're not the only person to want to be able to do this in Safari:

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/jslibs/script-findinpage

http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/tips/find.htm

I'll keep looking any let you know if I find anything.

Dan



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