{"id":16,"date":"2011-04-25T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-03-19T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:48:48","slug":"finding-text-on-any-website-on-the-ipad-iphone-and-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/finding-text-on-any-website-on-the-ipad-iphone-and-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Text on Any Website on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"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. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[17,8,40,7,52,53,54,51],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipad","category-iphone","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-ipad-2","tag-iphone-2","tag-ipod-touch","tag-javascript","tag-languages","tag-safari","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}