Aug 17, 2009 The search bar will be at the top of the screen on the right and you will be able to click through the matches. The Smart Search bar is a hybrid of the old address and search bars melded into one universal place to type and go. You can access your default search provider, your browsing history, saved bookmarks, and even specific words on web pages all through the unified Smart Search bar at the top of your Safari browsing window.
6/4/17 7:26 pm MacMost: How Do I Find a Specific Word Within a A Web Page On iPad Air 10.3.1? I’m about two hours into a text-only website, (no page numbers) and I want to know if I can search for a specific word, phrase, name or partial word within the page? I can select the text normally? Do I need to copy the entire text into my Reading List or Notes? Convert to PDF? That wouldn’t be ideal because I’m usually switching between two tabs to compare info and I’m not interested in editing it or altering it.
I just want to find and refer back to a name or term I read an hour ago. What I’ve tried: I watched your video re Keyboard as Trackpad for iOS 9, but that deals with editable text in Notes, not text on a web page. I tried to get my keyboard to appear, tried a few searches including Apple.
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Would an external keyboard solve this? Thanks in advance. 6/4/17 @ 7:26 pm To search text inside a page on the iPad, go up to the address bar.
Then type the search phrase. I know this is counter-intuitive, as it is the same thing you would do to leave the page and search for another, but this is where you do it. Then, before pressing Search on the virtual keyboard, look at the search suggestions that appear below the address field. You can swipe up on those to go to the bottom of this list and you’ll find “on this page” listed there. As far as selecting, you just tap and hold on a piece of text on the page and you should get a blue selection area with handles at either end. You can drag those handles up and down and use the black Copy button to copy that text. Try this on a page at some site you know it works, like Wikipedia first.
Then try it at the page you are dealing with. There is a way for web designers to disable text selection and copying, so it could be that this is being done on that page if you can’t seem to get it to work.