HTML Text Search

[sanders720]

I have an HTML document with a table. I would like to search the table for a keyword using wildcards, and have it either move to the next criteria in the table, or isolate the rows of the table based on the selection criteria.

Search

Gear – would find Gearboxes in the second row as the first item, and move to the word GEAR accordingly – with some kind of next function to pan through the document. The problem is, how would I always have my search string box on top?

OR – Isolate the rows that contain GEAR in column 1 or 2, thus temporarily hiding the rows that do not have this information.


Table:

Company Product Description

1234 Corp Air Cylinders, Proximity Switches and Accessories
5678 Corp Motors and Gearboxes
7890 Corp Conveyors and Belts

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[chessbot]

Here's one: try the Javascript forum forum216.

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[sanders720]

No way to do this within an HTML?

 

[chessbot]

Don't think so, but Javascript is basically the way to "dynamicise" (exists? sp?) HTML. HTML is by default static; it cannot be modified in most cases on a user action -- that is what Javascript is for.

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)