[Remppaaja]

When I have opened a web page in the browser, is it possible to search text from that page?

Hopefully this basic function is not missing. Very annoying if you have very long web page with a lot of text and you have to manually search the interesting part from the whole text.

I'm using Lumia 900.

[tkchan007]

Not sure about the Lumia 900, but on the Lumia 920, I just hold the word, you can then expand to include other words before or after it and then copy it.  Then click on the search button, paste in the copied word and it'll do the search for you (using Bing Search).  I would think if you want to use google search, you just go to google and then paste in the copied word(s) and same thing should work there too.

It would be nice if you can do context sensitive action after high lighting the word(s) though such as:

1. Dictionary/Wiki/etc Lookup.

2. Search (choice of provider).

3. Translate.

4. etc. etc.

Hopefully either IE will add these functionality or another browser will have these down the road.

[Fresh_Breeze · Accepted solution]

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Remppaaja wrote:

When I have opened a web page in the browser, is it possible to search text from that page?

Hopefully this basic function is not missing. Very annoying if you have very long web page with a lot of text and you have to manually search the interesting part from the whole text.

I'm using Lumia 900.

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You need to use a bookmarklet trick. Bookmarklet is a piece of JavaScript stored into bookmark which can perform some simple actions like search text form a web page or act as forward button.

I think this might be a working solution, or one of them:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311086

[Remppaaja]

Thanks Fresh_Breeze. This answered my question.

It is working nicely, but this Find-function should be there by default.