Web pages on the canvas
Find on page
Search a live web node's readable text, jump to a marked passage and understand when to use your browser's find.
Find on page helps you find words while you are inside a live web node. It uses the top bar's usual search box, but searches your readable copy of that page instead of the wider canvas.
The distinction matters: Glob's results lead into Glob reader. Your browser's own Find command searches the live website.
Search the page's text
- Enter a web node that opens a live page.
- Click Find on page in the top bar and type a word or phrase.
- Let the matches appear below the box, then choose a passage or press
Enter.
Glob may first show Reading the page… while it prepares your article text. A match includes a little text on either side so you can distinguish repeated words.
Search ignores letter case and treats runs of spaces or line breaks like a space. It looks through the article's title and readable text, including headings, list items and table cells. A phrase must fit within one part of the article: a paragraph ending with one word and the next starting with another are not one continuous match.
The search is of the readable article, so text in the live site's menus, interactive controls or other content outside that article may not be present.
Go to a match
Choosing a result switches to Glob reader, scrolls to the passage and marks it. The current match is orange; other matches are yellow.
The controls beside the box let you move through the results:
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
Enter |
Runs the search, or goes to the next match after that search has run. |
Shift+Enter |
Goes to the previous match. |
| Next match / Previous match | Steps through matches, wrapping at the ends. |
Escape with text in the box |
Clears the query. |
Before you visit a result, the status can say 12 matches. After you go to one, it can say 3 of 12. No matches means this search found no matching text in the readable copy.
Typing while the page is already in reader view takes you to the first match of the new search. To return to the website, choose Back to the live page, or close the temporary reader panel.
The result list displays at most the first 100 matches. The next and previous controls can step through up to 500 retained matches. If a common word produces too many results, add more of the phrase to narrow it.
Search the live website instead
Use Ctrl+F, or ⌘F on a Mac, for the browser's Find command. Glob leaves that shortcut to the browser while a live page is open. The field's hint reminds you that this searches the live page.
Use it when the words you need are visible in the website but absent from Glob reader. If you have trouble searching the embedded site, open the page in its own tab and use the browser's Find there.
When Find on page is unavailable
A provider's player does not have an article for this search. A page that cannot produce a reader copy also cannot produce these results. Glob replaces the field with Find isn't available for this page and a reminder to use the browser's Find command.
Couldn't read this page just now. Try again, or use Ctrl+F is a temporary failure; on a Mac the message names ⌘F. Try the search again after checking your connection, or open the page externally.
Leaving the live web node restores the top bar's ordinary search. A PDF uses Find in PDF instead, with its own document search and shortcut behaviour.