I want to open a page and search for a specific string. Can I do that?

[Jasbird]

Hello,

I want to link to an external HTML document. This is an extremely long
document which has hardly any internal link names in it.

Is there any way I can open the document and use some piece of code to
scroll the user's browser down to the relevant sentence in the document
that I want to point to?

I already sense a negative answer here, so no need to spend much time
explained why not.

[Richard Cornford]

Jasbird wrote:

I want to link to an external HTML document. ...

<snip>

Is there any way I can open the document and use some piece of code to
scroll the user's browser down to the relevant sentence in the document
that I want to point to?

If 'external' means not the same domain (or a sub domain) then you will
absolutely not be able to access the contents of the page under the
normal Internet security restrictions of web browsers with client-side
scripts.

I already sense a negative answer here, so no need to spend much
time explained why not.

Fine.

Richard.

[Jasbird]

On 21 Jul 2006 03:16:36 -0700, "Richard Cornford"
<Ri*****@litotes.demon.co.ukwrote:

>Jasbird wrote:

>I want to link to an external HTML document. ...

<snip>

>Is there any way I can open the document and use some piece of code to
scroll the user's browser down to the relevant sentence in the document
that I want to point to?

If 'external' means not the same domain (or a sub domain) then you will
absolutely not be able to access the contents of the page under the
normal Internet security restrictions of web browsers with client-side
scripts.

>I already sense a negative answer here, so no need to spend much
time explained why not.

Fine.

Richard.

If the pages were in domains under my control I could just edit the html
to put some links in there! I'm sorely tempted to copy the content over
to my own domain and put named links in. (They are government documents
available at government web-sites)

At the moment I have to say: open page http://www.blah.blah/blah.htm
(search for "platypus's erection"). It presumes the user knows how to
search a html page.