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trivial question #32 )edit)find

albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.

15 years ago

Near the top left of my screen using Firefox (There is another less versatile way to do this with a Firefox addon. My IE looks completely different.) is a place to select 'Edit'. Clicking on Edit brings a drop down which includes 'Find on this page...'.

Clicking on 'Find on this page...' generates a bar near the bottom of the screen where I can enter a word or phrase and there are options for 'Next', 'Previous', 'Highlight all' and 'Match case'.

All options work except 'Highlight all'

Trivial question #32 -- do you know how to make 'Highligh all' work?

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
edit> select all> will highlight all
bob414
15 years ago
Highlight all worked for me Albert. I hadn't tried it before but when I typed the word it found the first one and highlighted it in yellow. When I clicked highlight all it highlighted all occurrences on the page including those which were part of a longer word.
Doesn't help you except maybe to let you know that it at least works properly for some.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
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sorry forgot to say it does work fine on my linux firefox also. Once I type in the word to search for then all the options are visible and highlight all is available and works.
albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
Original Author
15 years ago
Tried it and retried it again. It finds and highlights the first but then 'highlight all' not only does not find all but removes the highlight from the first find.

Next, Previous and Match case work. It is only Highlight all that don't work.

So I've got something turned off or not updated.

I've XP, a getting old Dell, and Firefox 2.X, I haven't upgraded that yet.
albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
Original Author
15 years ago
OK, I upgraded to Firefox 3.X

This changed the Edit drop down a bit but I can still get to "Highlight all" in the bar at the bottom of the screen. The "Highlight all" box will toggle on and off, it just don't highlight anything.

The spouse is set up as a user on my computer. I switched to her user and "Highlight all" highlights with the yellow just as bob describes above.

So it is just the one user on this one machine where "Highlight all" won't work.

Curious huh?
bob414
15 years ago
When you play with computers you enter the twilight zone.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
it sounds like something in your firefox profile is corrupt or one of the add ons you have on your profile conflicts with that option, look at what add ons you have that she does not have. You may have to create a new profile.
albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
Original Author
15 years ago
Well, I have found the conflict >Tools>Options>Colors has a box to check to allow pages to choose their own colors. If this box is checked then >Edit>Find>Highlight all will work.

Now here is the interesting thing. It is only the highlight all which will not work. Other features of >Edit>Find will work irregardless of the tools, option, colors setting.

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