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    Default FireFox issue

    In my project i would like to search a particular text inside in the html textarea and i need to highlight that text..
    The Searching text should get highlighted in the button action of the search button.,......

    i m using the following script it works ie . firefox cant support any valid input it may helpful.

    <html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
    <script>
    <!-- Hide from old browsers
    var TRange = null;
    var dupeRange = null;
    var TestRange = null;
    var win = null;
    var nom = navigator.appName.toLowerCase();
    var agt = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
    var is_major = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
    var is_minor = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
    var is_ie = (agt.indexOf("msie") != -1);
    var is_ie4up = (is_ie && (is_major >= 4));
    var is_not_moz = (agt.indexOf('netscape')!=-1)
    var is_nav = (nom.indexOf('netscape')!=-1);
    var is_nav4 = (is_nav && (is_major == 4));
    var is_mac = (agt.indexOf("mac")!=-1);
    var is_gecko = (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1);
    var is_opera = (agt.indexOf("opera") != -1);
    var is_rev=0
    if (is_gecko) {
    temp = agt.split("rv:")
    is_rev = parseFloat(temp[1])
    }

    var frametosearch = self;

    function search(whichform, whichframe) {

    if (is_ie4up && is_mac) return;

    if (is_gecko && (is_rev <1)) return;

    if (is_opera) return;

    if(whichform.findthis.value!=null && whichform.findthis.value!='') {

    str = whichform.findthis.value;
    win = whichframe;
    var frameval=false;
    if(win!=self)
    {

    frameval=true; // this will enable Nav7 to search child frame
    win = parent.frames[whichframe];

    }


    }

    else return; // i.e., no search string was entered

    var strFound;

    if(is_nav4 && (is_minor < 5)) {

    strFound=win.find(str);


    }


    if (is_gecko && (is_rev >= 1)) {

    if(frameval!=false) win.focus(); // force search in specified child frame
    strFound=win.find(str, false, false, true, false, frameval, false);


    if (is_not_moz) whichform.findthis.focus();


    }

    if (is_ie4up) {


    if (TRange!=null) {

    TestRange=win.document.body.createTextRange();



    if (dupeRange.inRange(TestRange)) {

    TRange.collapse(false);
    strFound=TRange.findText(str);
    if (strFound) {
    //the following line added by Mike and Susan Keenan, 7 June 2003
    win.document.body.scrollTop = win.document.body.scrollTop + TRange.offsetTop;
    TRange.select();
    }


    }

    else {

    TRange=win.document.body.createTextRange();
    TRange.collapse(false);
    strFound=TRange.findText(str);
    if (strFound) {
    //the following line added by Mike and Susan Keenan, 7 June 2003
    win.document.body.scrollTop = TRange.offsetTop;
    TRange.select();
    }



    }
    }

    if (TRange==null || strFound==0) {
    TRange=win.document.body.createTextRange();
    dupeRange = TRange.duplicate();
    strFound=TRange.findText(str);
    if (strFound) {
    //the following line added by Mike and Susan Keenan, 7 June 2003
    win.document.body.scrollTop = TRange.offsetTop;
    TRange.select();
    }


    }

    }

    if (!strFound) alert ("String '"+str+"' not found!") // string not found


    }
    // -->
    </script>
    <div>
    <textarea rows="2" cols="20">
    Hi this is a test
    Hi this is a test
    Hi this is a test
    Hi this is a test
    </textarea>
    </div>
    <!-- EXAMPLE FORM OF FIND-IN-PAGE SEARCH USING SUBMIT (ALLOWING 'ENTER/RETURN' KEY PRESS EVENT) -->
    <form name="form1" onSubmit="search(document.form1, frametosearch); return false">
    <input type="text" name="findthis" size="15" title="Press 'ALT s' after clicking submit to repeatedly search page">
    <input type="submit" value="Find in Page" ACCESSKEY="f">
    hello hi welome
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>

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    See http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...range+textarea, particularly http://bytes.com/forum/thread151137.html. The implementation at the latter link apparently works.
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