Do you mean that if you type 'Ap' into the search box it would highlight 'Ap' in the word 'Apple'? Wow - that's a good one... It would be fairly heavy Javascript I suspect, due to the need to process all of the text in the filter result - you would also need to modify the DOM on the fly to be able to highlight just the 'Ap' (for example Apple). Alternatively you could put a transparent image over the found text, but you would still need to get the position of the target text, which would most likely be done using the DOM injection anyway...
If you want to go ahead with this, you might find the source from my "Secret" bookmarklet useful: http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Secret
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Do you mean that if you type 'Ap' into the search box it would highlight 'Ap' in the word 'Apple'? Wow - that's a good one... It would be fairly heavy Javascript I suspect, due to the need to process all of the text in the filter result - you would also need to modify the DOM on the fly to be able to highlight just the 'Ap' (for example Apple). Alternatively you could put a transparent image over the found text, but you would still need to get the position of the target text, which would most likely be done using the DOM injection anyway...
If you want to go ahead with this, you might find the source from my "Secret" bookmarklet useful: http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Secret
Regards,
Allan
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