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Opera inline search or find in page search without popup box

Friday, February 3, 2006 3:42:48 AM

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Press keyboard shortcut . (dot) or / and then type search term to search in text.
Press keyboard shortcut , (comma) and then type search term to search in links.
Press keyboard shortcut, F3 to find next.
Press keyboard shortcut, Shift+F3 to find previous.

Enable Use Integrated Search to use "Find in page" field instead of "Find in page" dialog when you press keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+F.

Opera inline find in page text
Inline find in page text

Opera inline find in page links
Inline find in page links

Opera version 8 & below: Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Search > [ENABLE] Use inline find in page

Use inline find in page

"Open folder" in Opera transfers right click menu"Save with image as..." in Opera file menu & keyboard shortcut

Comments

islamguidedotcom Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:02:41 PM

Missed this feature in opera 9....

Unregistered user Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:16:41 AM

homerdudes writes: actually the feature is there, just hidden just type this in the address bar: opera:config#UserPrefs|UseIntegratedSearch and check off use integrated search and you have inline page find back.

Unregistered user Wednesday, December 5, 2007 7:52:52 PM

krazylegz writes: homerdudes, Thanks for the tip, I've been looking for quite some time! You rock!!

Unregistered user Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:51:22 PM

K writes: There a way to "find next" using this? or are you on your own?

Tamil Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:02:08 AM

There a way to "find next" using this?

F3?

Unregistered user Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:08:51 AM

K writes: lol thanks >.< thought I tried that but apparently not

Tamil Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:06:09 AM

thought I tried that but apparently not

Check whether you have enabled Opera Standard keyboard setup.

Unregistered user Thursday, March 6, 2008 6:06:23 PM

Anonymous writes: Is there a way to have the last found item on the page using inline find remain highlighted after going to another page, then returning to the orignal page, ie the same behavior as in Opera 8? Also, is there a way to link the shortcut Ctl+F to the inline find instead of the popup?

Tamil Thursday, March 6, 2008 6:16:27 PM

Is there a way to have the last found item on the page using inline find remain highlighted after going to another page, then returning to the orignal page

Press F3.

Also, is there a way to link the shortcut Ctl+F to the inline find instead of the popup?

If you don't know how to edit keyboard setup see How to add/edit keyboard shortcuts in Opera? Search for f ctrl and change action to Find Inline, 1

Unregistered user Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:07:34 AM

Anonymous writes: Thanks. I guess I wasn't clear. Let's say I search for "8" using inline find on the page. I use "find next" to find each "8", and after the third one on the page is highlighted, I use the go back arrow to go to another page. I then return to the page using the go forward arrow. With previous versions of Opera that third "8" would still be highlighted, but with Opera 9 the search begins anew. At least this is the behavior I get using "F3" as well as the inline search box.

tr1n1ty Tuesday, April 8, 2008 2:53:20 PM

Thanks for the f3 "find next" tip! somehow the "find in page" search box disappeared when I upgraded my browser. I've tried using the inline search but it just wasn't the same without a "find next" key.
Can't say how grateful I am! THANKS!!

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:35:41 AM

Anonymous writes: long time no see guru is there a way to search with asterisk or placeholders for some strings like i wanna search for biggest filesize in a folder listing with 10.342 kb, 300 kb etc. with search string like this "XXXXXXX kb" where X should be placeholder letter (forgot exact notation for technical term)

Tamil Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:42:52 AM

AFAIK, no.

ersi Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:16:47 PM

it's also possible to search text in page from address field with keyword f

i don't know when this was implemented

SeanOakems Tuesday, May 5, 2009 12:18:19 PM

Originally posted by anonymous user:

Is there a way to have the last found item on the page using inline find remain highlighted after going to another page, then returning to the orignal page, ie the same behavior as in Opera 8? Also, is there a way to link the shortcut Ctl+F to the inline find instead of the popup?



You could hold shift and press F3, this will find the previous mention of the text you typed. When its performed from the start of a page it will start at the bottom and find the last instance of your searched for text (a time saver when its a long page and the text your searching for is fairly common).

I know this isn't exactly what you were after, but it does make things quicker if you know that what your trying to find is near the end of the page.

Arbenarbenperani Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:04:55 AM

A question about inline search in address bar ?
When I type for example "g opera" in address bar I get all the search results about Opera.
I am using Opera 10.10 and I wanted to add some other search engines (like Bing, some online dictionaries and some other sites but non of them except google, wikipedia, amazon and ebay are really working?
I am using Windows 7 32 bit, Professional Edition.

Any idea how to fix it ?

Tamil Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:06:11 PM

How did you add search engines?

Unregistered user Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:38:43 AM

HydraH writes: Hi there. Ever since I upgraded Opera from the 9 series (like 9.64) to 10, there is a feature that has been lost. I made a post at the Opera forums as well, but there was no answer. Previously, in "Notes" when we pressed Ctrl + F, a dialog box would open and typing anything in it would highlight all instances of that text in the selected note. In the newer versions, the dialog box has gone, to be replaced by Quick Find. But in Quick Find, when I type something, it only shows which notes contain the selected text (hiding the other notes), and after this, I have to go to each particular note to manually look up the item. As a result, every time I want to find anything now, I have open that selected note and select all and then paste it in notepad and search from there :( Is there any way to get the dialog box back in Notes? I don't know much about tweaking, but in Tools > Preferences > Shortcuts > Keyboard Setup, I edited the keyboard and in the Advanced section, I added a line in the Notes widget - "f ctrl" - "Find", but still nothing works.

Tamil Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46:55 AM

Is there any way to get the dialog box back in Notes?

Nope. sad

HydraHeaded Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:53:27 AM

Oh boy, that was quick! But nooooooo. There has to be some way. What I did, 'f ctrl - Find', can it actually work?

Tamil Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:57:29 AM

It is not working.

HydraHeaded Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:07:11 PM

Damn. Anyway, thanks for the quick replies!

jkforde Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:18:09 PM


Hi Tamil

I'm finding the 'Find in Page' function in v.10.50 (via the Search box on the main toolbar) does not immediately search the page as the user is typing the text - now the user has to type the full word\phrase and hit the Search button. Is it possible to get back to old functionality in 10.50 with some tweak?

This is the Search.ini entry (in the Application Data directory):
[Search Engine 1]
UNIQUEID=368291005FC211DD8DE6B90756D89593
Name=&FindInPage
URL=
Query=
Key=f
Is post=0
Has endseparator=1
Encoding=
Search Type=12
Verbtext=0
Position=-1
Nameid=71103

(And why Opera changed something that worked flawlessly already in previous versions!?)

Tamil Monday, March 8, 2010 9:06:33 AM

Why don't you use the method mentioned in post?

Unregistered user Tuesday, March 9, 2010 2:52:15 PM

Ekorn writes: Opera 10.50 pops up a toolbar for inline find, and dims the page except for my hits. I dislike that: The popup moves the entire page down a bit, confusing my focus. The dimming just makes it harder to read the context. Can I disable this fanciness and get back the previous behaviour?

Tamil Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:00:13 PM

The dimming just makes it harder to read the context.

Set Dim Search Opacity to 0.

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:38:18 AM

Ekorn writes: Thanks, Tamil! Now if only there were a way to avoid the page shifting down to give room for the search bar... (What was wrong with displaying the search term in the staus bar? *sigh*)

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:50:07 AM

Ekorn writes: Hurray! To move the darned popup search toolbar to the bottom: Shift-F12 to bring up the Appearance settings. Check "show hidden toolbars while customizing". Click the inline search bar (there are two quite similar toolbars; I chose the one with fewer buttons), then set its placement to "Bottom" and check "Show only when needed". Thanks, Tamil, for helping me keep my faith in Opera!

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:34:40 AM

Anonymous writes: I don't know if the internet would be the same for me without Opera and I appreciate the developers very much. Opera is so important for me and it is leagues ahead of other browsers. But for a user that is used to all the comfort of Operas, this new inline search behavior is a real headache. Looks like the search features of Opera have been downgraded. It's like a micro$0ft update :) seriously thinking of going back to an earlier version 10.x. BTW It's nice to be able to install more than one versions of opera at the same time. I always keep a second one installed for such conditions. If I come back to the searching problems: Here's a list of the problems I find: - When I pressed ctrl+f in the earlier versions I could get a pop-up search box and if I close it and open it again in another tab, my search string would be staying there, i.e. I wouldn't have to write the same thing again and again. - Also as long as I wouldn't close that box (or window, if you prefer) it would stay there when I switch to another tab so that I wouldn't have to open it again. - The earlier inline "finding text" BOX (which came up when I hit "." or ",") would take only a little space on the lower left corner, while the new one takes the whole width of the screen. - Although mentioned and solved in the earlier comments, the toolbar coming from the top and pushing the webpage down makes you lose focus while the dimming "feature" makes you feel you're in the land of m$. Ok, I went a litle harsh on this. - One last thing I'd really prefer not to see is the searched &found green highligted word having a border around with a dropping shadow. I felt really much clear with the earlier "only highlighting" feature that was without the border&shadow.

jkforde Saturday, March 20, 2010 1:05:46 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Why don't you use the method mentioned in post?



Thanks Tamil, I am using the method mentioned in the post and it's working fine but I prefer to have it as it was pre-10.50....

with 'Find in Page' as the default search in the search toolbar and hitting Enter brings me on to the next found. I still have Find in Page as the default in search.ini and it does appear as the default in the toolbar but typing in something in the toolbar search box just brings up the search provider list. Can't understand why this has changed as it worked just fine. rolleyes

Unregistered user Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:15:44 AM

Anonym writes: Hi Tamil, new update looks fine and everything but one thing is really anoying me. When I move the cursor on a link etc the link will be highlightet in the status toolbar in the lower left. The switch between the grey background of the highlightet link and the standard darkblue is quite distracting and annoying. Is there a way to to change that? Thanks

Tamil Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:55:25 AM

Do you use Opera Standard skin?

Unregistered user Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:00:19 AM

Anonym writes: yes

Tamil Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:05:27 AM

Could you show me screenshot?

Unregistered user Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:47:07 PM

Anonym writes: just recognized that im a little bit off-topic here, sorry for that. here's the link# http://rapidshare.com/files/367965982/Unbenannt.jpg.html

Unregistered user Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:37:35 PM

Damir, Croatia writes: OMG! Find in page is GONE... Realy, this is a terrible downgrade... Why? This is how we do it before: - press ctrl+F - type a phrase - press Enter, and Opera magic do the rest If you do this hundreds of time per day, you get a habbit to press Enter, not only in web browsers, in any Windows application... enter means DO IT... But, what we have now... Press Enter and your page is gonne, and open default search engine that do his magic! Briliant! :-( Then press Backspace and start search from the begining :( I tried all of this posts suggests, and some hack of my own, but nothing like before. So, the question is, what is the latest Opera version where ctrl+F opens Find in page dialog box? I use Opera from Opera's early days, and watch Opera progress, but this new search is no good!

Tamil Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:59:57 PM

http://rapidshare.com/files/367965982/Unbenannt.jpg.html

I think it is because of theme you are using in Windows Vista.

Unregistered user Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:14:33 PM

VladoS writes: I have to add my voice to people telling that previous version of Find in page was better. I don't understand why this feature was changed, and why it has no switch to original behavior. -dimming page inspired by Vista is useless disturbing - 3D focus of find word - this is unnecessery and frame and shadow of 3D object overlays next letter, if you write just part of word, and you have problem identify searched word - the find-in-page toolbar reduce size of viewing page, when searched word can be easily writen right web search box. I like opera, but I am guessing of downgrade back to 10.10

Tamil Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:24:23 PM

dimming page inspired by Vista is useless disturbing

Set Dim Search Opacity to 0.

Unregistered user Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:57:06 PM

Anonymous writes: I was hoping this would have some way of restoring the old search functionality under Opera 10.5, and get rid of this search toolbar. Among other things, I used to use / to find-in-page, and then tab to the next link on the page. Now, tab just navigates within that toolbar.

Unregistered user Sunday, May 2, 2010 9:46:20 AM

heydelta writes: I also hate the changes made to inline search. The old way of searching was so much more fluent. Is there not a way to get the old tiny popup at the bottom left back when you press the / key? It was so nice the focus immediately went to the first match while you were typing. Also I hate the implementation with a huge search bar and the horrible gray overlay.

Tamil Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:52:53 AM

Is there not a way to get the old tiny popup at the bottom left back when you press the / key?

Nope. sad

rediske Monday, May 3, 2010 4:18:42 PM

Please Opera people, bring back the old ctrl-f behaviour please...

Or at least a switch to chose...

Please, I love Opera!

Ant Owenantowen Friday, May 7, 2010 8:34:56 AM

There are some great tips on this page guys! smile

Opera has been my 1st choice of browser for over 10 years, due to its speed, simplicity, ease of use, innovative features, size, etc.

It seems lately that more and more useless eye-candy is being added by the Opera developers to attract users who are more impressed with pretty pictures and stupid animation than actual functionality. There's even a stupid animation right in the middle of this text input box which is getting in the way - WHY?

I'm currently running opera-10.53-6330.x86_64.linux but for the first time ever, I'm finding myself using Firefox more and more because Opera is becoming so crippled.

I realise this is only a beta, so things could change a lot before the final release, but I really can't understand why the developers would want to change / remove all the essential features that differentiate this browser from all the others and instead, fill it with useless crap that impedes productivity and likely only appeals to primary school kids.

Unregistered user Friday, May 7, 2010 1:03:41 PM

Névtelen writes: Dear Tamil, Your blog is one of the best places for finding in-depth information for Opera browser currently. As a user of Opera for more than 10 years, I'm also feeling that Opera is moving in the wrong direction with all the bells-and-whistles. The main problem is not that feature upgrades are happening, but that there are no opera:config settings to provide downwards compatibility for the professional users (which set correlates to the visitors of this very blog, I guess ;-)). For me, Opera is way ahead of other browsers for only one very solid reason: ergonomics. To get to the point: current inline search is not only visually new, but some old features are really getting lost here. For example, ctrl-f, dot, and comma searches all loose their previous search strings if I navigate between pages. As a consequence, I cannot use F3 to find the same string in multiple tabs (switching between tabs, of course). To keep up with compatibility and ergonomics at the same time, I would think that a opera:config setting to provide this behavior would be just as important as customizing dim search opacity (which I did, along with moving the find toolbars to the bottom, so that pages are not moving just because I happen to search in them...). From a global perspective, I'm hoping that ergonomics as a priority is not dismissed by the Opera crew, and there would be more configuration possibilities for compatibility in the future...

Unregistered user Friday, May 14, 2010 8:26:28 AM

Anonymous writes: I've upgraded Opera to the latest version and sorrowful regret about it already. BRING BACK THE CTRL+F SEARCH BOX !!! I hate these stupid useless "improvements" !!!!

Unregistered user Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:34:30 PM

Anonymous writes: Hi, first of all, thanks a lot for the "Dim Search Opacity" tip, I've been looking for this for quite some time. My question would be if there's a way to keep the last search term for all tabs, even if you have closed the tab you typed the search word in? I hope you know what I mean: when I press F3 Opera sometimes looks for the last typed word, sometimes it doesn't, and when the find toolbar is open on another tab it uses that word and not the last one. It's very irritating when you're looking for the same word on various pages. Best wishes, Angela

Tamil Tuesday, June 8, 2010 2:04:33 PM

AFAIK, no.

Unregistered user Friday, June 11, 2010 10:05:43 PM

honte.eu writes: 10.6 build 8372 OS X command-f raises a search box aka inline find as expected, but also typing . , / dot, comma, slash this is completely non-standard and happens to break some scripts, those that use the keyboard but not for text entry.... please disable, and provide a switch. how does one disable just this behaviour? Use Integrated Search does not appear to be it!

Andreandre1000 Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:49:01 AM

With all of the lost features in Opera is there anyplace I
might find someone or a group who offers fixes or workarounds
that I can implement even if it means using another software
program? I'm still using 8x sometimes for the easy key boarding features that were lost in 9x

eg: From 10.10 to 10.6x Opera lost speak function. I downgraded to 10.10 to get it back but a workaround would
be to use another software to read my 10.6x opera page.

If all of the workarounds and solutions are in one place I'd
like to see it. Even a site that simply put the urls in
one place would be super useful.

Suggestion. If you know of a site that has a workaround consider putting a keyword that's not easily found in a
google search that will key in on a site displaying the
fixes.

eg. the word - metahsner

does not show up in a google search but put on a site with
google fixes I assume that text string would show up and
the string would easily be shared quickly among opera users.

Ok. Well Thanks. : )

Andre

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