Comments on: Find and replace text with JavaScript

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:17:13 +0000

Nice script, but it frequently destroys white spaces in the text block it is acting on

By: eugene

eugene — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:04:35 +0000

nice work
one limitation i found is that it is case sensitive, this is easy regex fix. unless this was your intention.

By: Nitpicker

Nitpicker — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:44:47 +0000

Doesn’t work in IE7 unfortunatly

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:37:25 +0000

And then I just read the second to last sentence in your article… Good Work!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:34 +0000

If you search for “high” it highlights ‘high’ in ‘highlight’

Then if you search for “highlighted” nothing is highlighted.

(I’m using firefox)

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:45:25 +0000

I’m not sure why (and it may only be chrome), but occasionally it misses some if you search for two terms. Try searching for ‘text’, then search for ‘in’. Most instances of ‘text’ and ‘in’ are highlighted. But try hitting Go! again… now the ‘in’ inside ‘within’ is highlighted where it wasn’t before.

Very nice and useful script though, good work, thanks for sharing.