Hi

I have an HTMl page which I want to search for a specific word in it by a small program which I should able to run that program and if it finds that word, return me "found it" otherwise sends me a popup warning which says "not found".
how can I write do this.
my html page is just tables and the info inside of the cells.
looking for the best solution.

thank you

There are several technologies you can use to make such a program. One is JavaScript witch runs on the client browser. JavaScript is really the only choice if you don't want to do it server-side. Because it's browser independent unlike VBScript. Other means is Java Server Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP and Common Gateway Interface (CGI - using Perl or Python) if you want do it server-side. You almost only want to do it clien-side if the content is in some sort of database.

Using JavaScript you can dynamically use CSS to mark the found word. Neat :-)


Regards - Jon

I believe Javascript is the best solution but I can't get access to that specific page otherwise I knew how to write it with ASP or even .NET but my question is for now which I have no access to the source code of that page, how can I write that code to search the word for me by searching the page?
if you have any idea, type it here pls. even any kind of sample of Jscript code is a great help.

Uhm, what's wrong with Ctrl+F?

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If you're still monitoring this post then the XMLParser is a great way of doing it.

 - mega

Since this topic has been dug up again, here's my input:

Create a frames page (yes I know frames are outdated) with a small frame on the top and a large frame (the page you want to search) on the bottom.

In the top page, try something like this:

function findWord(stf) //called like this: findWord("example string to find");
{
 var sts = top.frames[1].document.body.createTextRange();
 if(sts.findText(stf))
 {
  alert("String found!!");
  sts.scrollIntoView();
 }
 else
  alert("String not in document");
}

FWIW,

Snib

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