Bug 577398

Summary:	[webkit][GTK] Browser should support searching for text in the page content
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andrey Loskutov <loskutov>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, carsten.pfeiffer, eclipse, harald.hermann, volodja_reg
Version:	4.15
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Andrey Loskutov

2021-11-22 12:17:27 EST

That is same as bug 455555 but for webkit/GTK.

AS IS: there is no way to search for a text via Ctrl+F shortcut in the opened internal browser or in Eclipse Help.

TO BE: ideally, some dialog should be opened that allows to search in the help.

If not possible to do that in the browser component itself, we may create a dedicated bug for the Help to add some fancy javascript/css based dialog that we contribute to the Help component so that we could do that via html Help itself (not sure it is possible either).

Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov

2021-11-22 12:21:18 EST

Hint if anyone is interested in implementing it: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/WebKitGtk/ProgrammingGuide/Cookbook#Searching_text_on_a_WebView

Comment 2 Carsten Pfeiffer

2022-06-10 07:32:49 EDT

We're using the SWT Browser component and I've been wondering why Ctrl-F works fine on Windows (=IE), but not on Linux (webkit). Now I know.

An alternative to a native webkit implementation might be a BrowserFunction using Window.find() (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/find). That could also fix bug 455555 on macos.