Lack of interest Search feature in styles template area

[DamienDarwick]

I would like to request a search feature within a template as we are editing it. vBulletin has this feature and its the "Find" field under the template when its opened. This would be a great help for designing styles.

 

[anotheralias]

Because I just don't understand why the browser search would not work and assume it's not the browser - but the user.

You know what happens when you assume.

 

[Ryan]

For the record, I've been using CTRL + F in browsers and all sorts of other software (Notepad, Word, NetBeans, Visual Studio, Dreamweaver...) and have never run into it not working, so I apologize if I can't understand why it doesn't seem to work for you.

I've also already seen and answered this question twice before:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/is-there-a-way-to-search-in-templates.5643/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/full-text-search.5724/

Both times, the user has said "thank you, I didn't realize I could do that". This is the first time somebody has said "that's not enough", and I'm not sure why. I understand that some may ask for the question/seek out this feature since most here are probably ex-vB users and are used to the feature. What you need to realize is that your browser does this, and it does it well.

 

[Allan]

With vB, there are a search fonction, but with XenForo, no.

I miss it very much, maybe I'm not the only

 

[Allan]

and not CTRL + F please

(I specify before of Paul say it to myself )

 

[Paul B]

I'll merge this thread with the one that was created earlier.

 

[Allan]

Have you tried the search within template feature in the ACP?

yes but multiple template out with this way.

 

[dutchbb]

In Safari on Mac, it doesn't matter if your cursor is in the template text area. cmd + F will search and mark every word on that page. This can be annoying if the word you're searching for appears a lot of times outside of the template text area.

I'm using cmd + F lots of times and it works fine in most cases, but I can also see why there is still a demand for a template text area search feature within the software.

 

[Miko]

Why don't you use the built in WebDav so that you can edit the templates in your favorite code editor?
That way you can search, replace , compare and do soooooo much more than what you can in any other forum software.

 

[Allan]

This fonction will be add on future version ?

 

[Forsaken]

This fonction will be add on future version ?

WebDav is available now.

There is a quick guide on the Random Questions Answered thread.

 

[Lilybet]

CTRL+ F

Thank you, Ryan! That helped me alot!