319958 - "find next"/"highlight all" incoherent behaviour when page has form fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252371

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Helder "Lthere" Magalhães]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051211 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051211 Firefox/1.6a1

When a page as «static» HTML and form fields (such as text areas), using the "Find Next" to search a word only searches in the «static» HTML. Forms fields are not considered.

On the other hand, "Highlight all" DOES search form fields (such as text areas), so I believe this is simply an incoherence.

My sugestion is that form fiels are seachable also, using the "Find Next", because some forms contain lots of information (a Wiki page edit was the reason why this bug was reported).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open some page with form fields
2. search for text that is in the page and also inside a form field using "Find Next".

Actual Results:  
text inside form fiels is not found.


Expected Results:  
text inside form fiels should be found like any other text.


Using the "Highlight all" feature, the text inside the form fiels IS highlighted. My sugestion is that this becomes the "Find Next" behaviour - searchable text inside form fields is a VERY useful feature. One of the most useful usages of this searchable behaviour is Wiki pages: when a page is edited, the text contents appear inside a text area and without search, trace a misspelled word can be a headache.

Comment 1

[Helder "Lthere" Magalhães]

A similar bug was found in the "All-time Top 100", although in my opinion it isn't as clear as this explanation (reason why I didn't find it in the first place).

The sugestions posted here can also be useful to fix it or simply as some aditional information about the bug.

Sorry for not finding the related bug before creating the «new» one!

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