Hello web designers and developers, I have a question for you.
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Hello web designers and developers, I have a question for you.
Consider a common situation. You press
Ctrl-Fto search for a string in the current web page, the browser returns a few results but, when you step through them, some results are not highlighted and are apparently nowhere to be seen on the page, or at least on the portion in view.Why this behavior? Are there technical obstacles to highlighting arbitrary text on a page and adjusting the viewport to bring that text into view?
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Hello web designers and developers, I have a question for you.
Consider a common situation. You press
Ctrl-Fto search for a string in the current web page, the browser returns a few results but, when you step through them, some results are not highlighted and are apparently nowhere to be seen on the page, or at least on the portion in view.Why this behavior? Are there technical obstacles to highlighting arbitrary text on a page and adjusting the viewport to bring that text into view?
Sometimes I've found text hits in the raw HTML that are not displayed as the page is rendered.
E.g., alt text for images is not obviously visible until you hunt for it.
There are lots of other examples where text might be "hidden" as far as rendering, but findable in raw text search.
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Sometimes I've found text hits in the raw HTML that are not displayed as the page is rendered.
E.g., alt text for images is not obviously visible until you hunt for it.
There are lots of other examples where text might be "hidden" as far as rendering, but findable in raw text search.
@weekend_editor That's understandable, but why list invisible text in the results in the first place?