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ikjadoon
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Aug 02, 2021

CTRL + F bug: 1/1 found, but no highlights. Hidden behind ellipsis?

Hello!

 

I've had this peculiar problem on many sites recently. I hit CTRL+F to find a term, it claims it's found and can scroll to the exact area, but there is no visual highlight.

 

Steps to reproduce:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/c/MunroLive/videos
  2. Open CTRL+F and search for "quantum".
  3. Edge will automatically scroll down, but no highlights.

 

Screenshot:

 

 

Edge has found the term in the HTML (??), but the text—and thus Edge's highlight—is hidden. You may see this as a bug report or a feature request: can Edge ensure it shows some visual highlight even when the text is obscured?

 

To me, the simplest solution is to add a wider highlight with more words on the left / right, perhaps with a lighter / faded highlight. Something like this, if I CTRL+F for "Founder":

Interview: Jagdeep Singh, Founder & CEO of QuantumScape

 

The keyword is highlighted the strongest, but the surrounding words also pick up a bit of highlight to ensure even if it's a bit cut-off, we're not losing the text. This would also help with accessibility, as sometimes picking out short strings with a tiny amount of yellow highlighting is difficult.

 

The problem with this solution: what if the word is so hidden that +/- 3 words on either side isn't enough? 

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