260325 - Firefox's find feature doesn't search within textarea elements, although find in both IE and Opera does.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252371

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[David Lauri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Use the example page at http://www.davidlauri.com/textarea.html and do a search
for the word "lots".  Firefox will say that it cannot find it.  Internet
Explorer and Opera both highlight the word lots in the textarea element on that
page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the page http://www.davidlauri.com/textarea.html
2. Type / to start search
3. Type "lots"
Actual Results:  
Firefox says it can't find the word on the page.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have highlighted the word lots in the textarea element in the
form on the page.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252371 ***