87944 - browser or editor: Find should scroll so that found string isn't hidden by dialog

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P4)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found using 2001.06.26.0x branch comm bits [prolly in the trunk as well] on the
three main platforms.

sometimes when i'm searching for text in a web page, the Find in Page dialog
obscures the text found. [also see this with a web page loaded in composer.]

4.x handled this differently among the different platforms:

win32: page was scrolled such that the found text would no longer be behind the
Find dialog. eg, the page would be scrolled a bit, so that the found
[highlighted] text would appear below the dialog.

mac: the Find dialog was dismissed [went away] when the text was found.

linux: 4.x behavior the same as 6.x/moz behavior.

my preference would be to have all platforms behave similarly to win32/4.x.

current workaround: move/drag the dialog out the way.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

kind of 4xp. also kind of an enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Some time in future....

Comment 3

[Robin Green]

This is not an enhancement request. The find function is almost useless unless
users can see WHERE the string has been found.

Test case: http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html
Find "location", tick "wrap-around". Keep pressing find button. After a few
times (I think it's after it wraps around) scrolling stops working.

Comment 4

[Robin Green]

mucho apologies for spam - my prev comment was posted to the wrong bug. See
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91745 instead.

Comment 5

[Robin Green]

related to bug 78833

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

Opened bug 159402.  This is related but not a duplicate, since it deals with
situations in which the page cannot be scrolled.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

would a transparent dialog box work?

Comment 8

[Jason Bassford]

As of the latest builds, the find in this page dialog box has been removed completely.  We now have a "find bar" at the top of the page.  I don't know what bug introduced this new feature, but the problem here no longer exists.