Search For Text On Any Website In Mobile Safari
While perusing my Google Reader subscriptions earlier today, I came across a post from AppAdvice.com that describes how to create a bookmarklet for Mobile Safari that when accessed, will prompt allowing one to search for any text on the displayed web page (see screen shot above). The search results will be displayed with a yellow highlight on the original web page, making it very easy to spot the word of phrase.
I created this bookmarklet on my iPhone in just a couple minutes, and have already found myself using it several times. It’s amazing that Apple hasn’t built on-page search functionality into Mobile Safari by now, but even more amazing how slick this bookmarklet is.
Read the original post, along with all the steps and helpful screen shots, at AppAdvice.com.
That is some hellishly long javascript. I tried to copy and paste it from Mobile Safari, but no love. I finally e-mailed it to myself. But now that I've got it up and running – Fantastic! Great tip.
Thanks for the comment Lesley! Glad it worked for you.
I've already used it about 6 or 8 times today just since I wrote this post. Can't believe how useful this is!
Amazing find, I was literally thinking today, "why can't I search in mobile safari like I can on my mac?" I think this will be a future implementation on the Apple side but for now it's perfect!!
Thanks for the comment Bobby! Glad it worked for you as well!
Thanks for reading!