Re: Pane scrolling and searching

In article <5697cbebe8Lists@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (lists)
<Lists@Torrens.org> wrote:
> In article <5697c374a7Lists@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (lists)
> <Lists@Torrens.org> wrote:
> > http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F207018

> Oops! URL should have been
> http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=10

> "Anglian" occurs within first and second panes.

> Sorry!

> > is an odd page - it has 6 lists within panes.

The technical bit: those 'panes' are DIVs which use CSS to have scroll
bars and whatnot. They're neither frames nor iframes and the content is
in the page delivered to the browser, not loaded from discreet files. as
(i)frames would be. Not all CSS is fully implemented in NetSurf and the
search doesn't seem to cope with scrolling through a DIV whose content
overflows.

> > I was searching for "Anglian" within the window and there were
> > several occurrences. But as these are within the panes it is
> > extremely difficult to know where they are!

Not ideal but in cases like this, press f8 and search the source. It's
laid out quite well (unlike the impenetrable garbage produced by e.g Wix)
so obvious which link relates to what. You can then cut and paste the end
of the relative link in place of the 'a?_ref=10'

After f8, using search in your editor one of the "anglia" hits is in this
line: [angle braces replaced with regular here]

(a href="/details/c/F201076")East Anglia Territorial, Reserve Forces and
Cadets Association(/a)

The URL in NetSurf
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=10
is easily changed to
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F201076

HTH

T

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