Bug 255034

Summary:	[GTK] Find in page (Ctrl+F search) should be able to automatically scroll scrolling elements, not just the main viewport
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Jeff Fortin <nekohayo>
Component:	WebKitGTK	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	bugs-noreply
Priority:	P2
Version:	Other
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Jeff Fortin 2023-04-05 09:12:20 PDT

Originally filed at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2022

Whether in complex forms (for example: this Bugzilla's "Component" field*) or applications like Trello or Kanboard (two kanban board web applications that allow having individual scrolling columns of items), Epiphany's Ctrl+F feature should be able to automatically scroll those scrolling components when it finds matches in them (WebKitGtk is already finding those results, just not scrolling to them).

For example, if I have a very long list of items in a trello column, each column can scroll individually, and the search result I'm looking for may therefore be off-screen. Epiphany tells me it can find the match for what I'm looking for, but it nevers shows the currently selected (if there are multiple matches, even if I click the v/^ buttons in the searchbar) to me, because it's off-screen due to scrolling. In comparison, Firefox is able to do this as expected.

Tested with Epiphany 44 / WebKitGTK 2.40.0

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*: yeah, I know you can use typehead instead of find in this particular case, but this was just an example...