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\"Find<\/a><\/p>\n

EDIT: <\/strong>Apparently this is now included in iOS 4.2<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks go to Mowg for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n

One rather frustrating thing that I have noticed with the iPad (and iPhone) is the inability to search for text within Safari. \u00a0Well as it turns out, a simple javascript bookmark is all you need to add this functionality to any iOS device (just like my post on viewing source code<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To enable finding text within any website, follow the below instructions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open Safari (pretty self explanatory).<\/li>\n
  2. Create a new bookmark.<\/li>\n
  3. In the Title window, write whatever you want your bookmark to be named (I chose “Find on Page”)<\/li>\n
  4. In the address bar add the following javascript code:\n
    javascript:void(s=prompt('Find text:',''));s='('+s+')';x=new RegExp(s,'gi');\r\nrn=Math.floor(Math.random()*100);rid='z' + rn;b = document.body.innerHTML;\r\nb=b.replace(x,'&lt;span id=&quot; + rid + &quot;&gt;$1&lt;\/span&gt;');void(document.body.innerHTML\r\n=b);alert('Found ' + document.getElementsByName(rid).length + ' matches.');\r\nwindow.scrollTo(0,document.getElementsByName(rid)[0].offsetTop);<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    NOTE<\/strong>: The entire javascript should be on one line. \u00a0As with the post on viewing source code, I did not develop this javascript bookmark. All credit goes to Matthew Panzarino\u00a0(Edit:\u00a0<\/strong>link seems to be dead now).<\/p>\n
    \"Enhanced<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    EDIT: Apparently this is now included in iOS 4.2. \u00a0Thanks go to Mowg for bringing this to my attention. 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