Highlight matches within the page

[SebastianZ]

It should be possible to somehow highlight the part of the page related to an error.

E.g. this could happen when hovering the match or by clicking an icon next to it. The matched part should then be scrolled to and highlighted like Firebug's or the DevTools' inspector does it.

Sebastian

[SebastianZ]

Mentioned by @a2sheppy in issue #130:

This might be tricky to do although I think CKEditor offers functions we should be able to exploit to do it. At a minimum, some kind of automated triggering of search to get to it would be better than nothing...

I think this can be done without any special API, but if CKEditor already offers functions for this, that'd even better. This statement refers to scrolling to the match.

Highlighting the match should be done without page interaction if possible, i.e. like the DevTools do it.

Sebastian

[a2sheppy]

See CKEDITOR.dom.selection.scrollIntoView() here, for starters: http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.dom.selection-method-scrollIntoView

In general, there's a lot of stuff in the CKEditor API which is useful when writing tools to help with editing MDN -- http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api

[SebastianZ]

Highlighting the match should be done without page interaction if possible, i.e. like the DevTools do it.

And that's described here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Highlighter

Sebastian

[Elchi3]

Re-filed as mdn/doc-linter-webextension#23