22 Sep
How To Find Or Search Text Within A Web Page Or iPhone?
Posted on 2008 under iPhone FAQ | No CommentSurprisingly, there is no native “find” function in the version of Safari that comes with the iPhone.
If you are browsing a large piece of content, and need to find a particular word or section of the page quickly, this can present a serious problem.
Thankfully, you can add a search or text finding function to Safari on your iPhone with relative ease through the use of bookmarklets.
A bookmarklet is a Javascript program stored within a URL (or sometimes within a web page as a hyperlink). These program add functionality to the browser. The term itself is a combination of the terms bookmark and applet (a small program or application).
Bookmarklets can provide useful functionalities such as finding text within a page, quick searching Wikipedia, excerpting all the links from a page, finding similar websites to the one you are browsing, looking up movie times, and more. There is practically and endless list of bookmarklets available for your utility.
As far as whether the iPhone supports them - yes, it does. Thanks to the full-fledged version of Safari on the iPhone, the iPhone has complete Javascript support, and thus has support for bookmarklets.
To take advantage of bookmarklets on your iPhone, add them to your bookmarks on your PC that you sync with the iPhone. Then, sync your bookmarks to your iPhone, and you can access and utilize your bookmarklets from your iPhone’s Safari bookmarks.