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Firefox search now works in textboxes and textareas

April 18, 2004

The Burning Edge points out that you can now search in textboxes and textareas in a webpage when you do a “Find in this page” search. The corresponding bug is bug 58305 and this enhancement appears in builds on and since 2004-04-16. I sorely missed this, especially so because IE does have this feature - some sites use textareas to display code.

Screenshot of Find in this page in textarea

As pointed out in this comment, this works for both the “Find in this page” function (accessible via Ctrl-F or Edit -> Find in this page…) and the “Find as you type feature“. But with “Find as you type”, the text found is not highlighted due to bug 134586 - selection in text field is invisible when it doesn’t have focus. This will probably be fixed by the time Firefox 1.0 is released.

Posted by Chu Yeow at April 18, 2004 SGT |

| Category: Mozilla

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useful bug fix
Firefox search now works in textboxes and textareas

Posted by: the dailywebthing • linkport on April 18, 2004 1am

I’m sorry for using the comments for this, but can you tell me what theme you’re using in that screen shot? Thanks!

Posted by: Cmad on April 18, 2004 2am

Not a problem :). I’m using the very pretty Le Breeze theme by Kevin Davies. The Thunderbird theme is especially nice.

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on April 18, 2004 2am

Which nightly build of Firefox are you running, Chu Yeow?

Posted by: Brian on April 19, 2004 8am

2004-04-16… Ah I seem to have made a mistake above in the date. Thanks!

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on April 19, 2004 10am

Too bad it’s broken again in FF1.0.

Posted by: Matt Vance on November 13, 2004 5am

…and STILL not working in Firefox 1.1! Absolutely unbelievable that they could leave such an essential feature like this unresolved.

Posted by: justin on March 8, 2005 5pm

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