Closed Bug 354362 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

search ignores contents inside textboxes

Categories

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252371

People

(Reporter: jwagner, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060425 SUSE/1.5.0.3-7 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060425 SUSE/1.5.0.3-7 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Seeing this both in XP, Firefox 1.5.0.7 as well as SuSE 10.1, Firefox 1.5.0.3. The search function of the Find: search bar when using Find Next and Find Previous does not look through the contents of textboxes on the page. Assume a web page where the searched word/phrase is only present in a text box. In this case "Highlight all" does successfully highlight the word/phrase inside the textbox, but the Find: textbox background color is reddish and "Phrase not found" text and icon appear, incorrectly indicating no occurences of the word/phrase were found, and neither do Find Next or Find Previous set selection and move caret to the entry inside the textbox. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to, for example, http://www.wikipedia.org/ and enter "something" into the textbox on that page (i.e. enter a word that isn't found elsewhere on that web page) 2. Ctrl-F, enter search term "something", and also select Highlight all 3. try Find Next, Find Previous Actual Results: "something" is highlighted by "Highlight all", but Find Next and Find Previous do not find the occurence, and the search bar says Phrase not found Expected Results: "something" is highlighted by "Highlight all", and Find Next will move selection to the text "something" inside the textbox and place the caret at the selection. In other words, as with "Highlight all" and Find Next / Find Previous for phrases outside textboxes, the search function should work in exactly the same way also for phrases inside textboxes <=> for consistency, all found occurences highlighted by "Highlight all" should behave the same with Find Next / Find Previous. If current behaviour is per design/specification, consider it very bad and inconsistent design, and please improve.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252371 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Component: Search → Find Toolbar / FastFind
QA Contact: search → fast.find
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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