202074 - The find function does not work always. It just says "the text you entered was not found" even when you can see that the text is on the page.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58305

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

The find function does not work always. It just says "the text you entered was
not found" even when you can see that the text is on the page.

It seems to happen randomly. It happens most often on pages that have frameset
pages, or iFrames in them.

Sometimes it doesn't find anything, sometimes on the same page, it finds things
in a frame somewhere other than where you want to search, etc. In the example
page I wrote, it always finds nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to the url, http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~pcmalone/test/findTest.html
2. hit ctrl-f and the find dialog comes up
3. type "test" and hit enter

Actual Results:  
the find gives the error saying "the text you entered was not found" even though
it is right there.

Expected Results:  
I expect it to highlight the text "test" on the page

very Mozilla version i have tried has the same problem. I tried it before and
after installing service packs, i tried clicking places on the page before
hitting ctrl-f, and couldn't figure out why it does this still.

Comment 1

[Peter]

i played around with my test page a bit and found that it does not find "test"
but it does find "h". When it finds "h", it highlights the letter h in the
iframe, instead of the first one on the page, which is outside the frame.

Comment 2

[Peter]

um... my test page is flawed. it does not actually contain "test".

i'm going to find a real page where it happens. sorry...

Comment 3

[Peter]

i would like to change "Reproducible: Always"

i can't seem to reproduce it now.

just before i decided to finally post this bug, i copied something on a page and
pasted it into the find field, and it did not find it. even on that same page i
can't do it again.

Comment 4

[Jon Henry]

Peter, are you still seeing problems with Mozilla's "find" function in recent
builds? It's been working well for me, perhaps the way it chooses were to search
is what's causing confusion? It seems like when a page first loads, if you do
not click anywhere but instead immeadeately hit Ctrl-f, it will look for text in
all frames. If, however, you click inside a frame, it will only look for text in
that frame, which I think is the way it's supposed to work. Is this still not
working right for you? Thanks for any new information.

Comment 5

[Peter]

i managed to do it once or twice recently... i don't know how it happens & can't
seem to reproduce it. i always click above the area where i want to search to
make sure it's in the right frame & to make sure that it searches the area i
want searched, so i'm not doing something wrong. i understand how it works.

since nobody but me can reproduce it, it's probably related to the pages i'm
always on. it only seems to happen in the forums in an online game, utopia,
which you will find at http://games.swirve.com/utopia/login2.htm but you have to
register.... there are lots of tables on those pages and they can get big like
10k. there's nothing really special about those pages so i dunno what it is.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58305 ***