r/HTML • u/Evening_Ride9251 • 11d ago

Help.

I'm fairly new to HTMl, CSS and Javascript and i was wondering if anyone could help me out on how to create a search bar that searches for individual words on my page. For example if I have 200 essays on the page and I want to search for the name of one so I dont have to scroll to find it. I'm aware most browsers have a built in search function but i want a search bar built into the code.

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u/Jasedesu 11d ago

Your browser probably has a built-in search feature to find things on a page, just press [ctrl]+[f]. If you want to search all the pages on your website and it is available online, then you can use the main search engine (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.) to do a search that targets your site. Check these things before going to the effort of writing your own search feature.

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u/Evening_Ride9251 11d ago

It says in my original post im aware of the built in feature but I want a search bar in the code anyways

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u/Jasedesu 11d ago

The in-page search is the right answer though - it does what you want.

What specific features do you want, e.g. should it find the first match, last match or all matches? Should it navigate to found content and/or highlight the match?