Description

Finally - ability to search for text inside Web pages on your mobile browser!

See videos here: findinpage.blogspot.com

Find In Page is a bookmarklet that adds the missing in-page search feature to the Web browser on your device. Think of it as the mobile Web browser equivalent of "Edit -> Find..." or "Ctrl+F" or "Command+F" functions that are availa... Read Moreble on your desktop Web browser.

Page search is one of the most important productivity tools for doing research on the Web. For example, it significantly reduces the amount of time required to review search engine results - instead of scanning and reading each page for relevance, you can use Find In Page to look for relevant keywords, saving time and frustration. Ability to search for text in long Web pages and text files online is simply awesome. I cannot do without it, so I created Find In Page because I got tired of waiting for this feature to be added to the browser.

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THE VERY IMPORTANT, SCARY DISCLAIMER
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Because Find In Page works as a browser bookmark, and because there is currently no way for an app to add bookmarks to your browser automatically, you will have to use the data and instructions contained in this app to create and edit the bookmark manually. Instructional text and video are provided, but if you are not comfortable performing the following tasks, THEN THIS APP IS PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU. You must be comfortable with:

1. Bookmarking a page in the browser on your device.

2. Editing an existing bookmark to change its Title and Address fields.

3. Pasting text from the Pasteboard on your device.

If, however, you are a power user of your browser and your device, please do read on!
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END VERY IMPORTANT, SCARY DISCLAIMER
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What makes this Find In Page bookmarklet different from similar, free bookmarklets floating around on the Web?

1. For one, it has an actual User Interface - a toolbar that is docked at the bottom of your browser window. You can use the toolbar to perform multiple searches on the same page. Once you are done searching, the toolbar and any highlighted search results are cleanly removed from the page at the touch of a button. The LITE version of Find In Page DOES NOT have NEXT and BACK buttons for moving forward and backward through search results - these buttons are available only in the full version. NEXT and BACK buttons are two good reasons to upgrade to the full version of the app.

2. It does not break the content of the page as a side-effect of its search-and-highlight action, so multiple searches can be performed, one after another, without reloading the page.

3. It does not naively interpret your search terms as Regular Expressions, and it works only on the content of text nodes in the HTML document, so it is safe and perfectly valid to have both Regular Expressions and HTML keywords in your search terms. TO PUT IT SIMPLY: you get what you search for, not unpleasant surprises!

4. It deliberately filters out search results that are contained in hidden, invisible elements on the page (these are more common than one might think, especially in Web 2.0 and designed-for-mobile Web pages).

5. It strikes the delicate balance between search speed and search correctness and relevance.

USAGE:
After you have created the bookmark containing Find In Page bookmarklet code, it is recommended to move it up in your list of bookmarks, especially if this list is very long. When you want to do a search on any page, simply tap the bookmarks button on the browser bottom toolbar, and tap on the Find In Page bookmark. Immediately the Find In Page toolbar will be added to your current page and you will be prompted for text to find.