Option for Find in Page Toolbar at the Bottom

[dude99]

Some user are not comfortable with looking between top & middle section of the screen. Thus there should be option for BOTTOM posittion for Findbar to ease the eyes strain from staring upward to much.

[Pesala]

@dude99 I find that any discomfort is due to the page content moving down when the toolbar is shown.

[dude99]

@pesala Yes. That too is kinda nauseating after awhile. I forgot about it becuz I modded it to not shift the webpage when show the findbar... then later i just move it to the bottom becuz my eyes just can't stand keep looking upward & back to the middle of the screen when search for text on webpage.

[dude99]

Here is my DIY mod: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/222571

As u can see, it's not really that hard to complete this request. It only took me a few hours to write & optimized this CSS mod (I'm not a programmer, ok).

Please just do it.

[vertex]

This is a pretty old request, but sadly still not implemented. In addition of the "bloated head" feeling, it's uncomfortable high position and the jumping page: The "Find in Page" search bar seems to trigger a resize event and seriously messes with some webpages when it's being toggled on/off. Some websites jump to completely different scroll positions when you try to find some text, which is especially bothersome on loooong sites.

Plus it's a serious waste of screen space, given that it covers the full width of the viewport, but uses only about 1/5th of the reserved space. I'd vote for a floating bar that's only as wide as its content and can be positioned anywhere we want. Or, if given the option, i'd like it to be permanently available in the middle of the status bar or open in there (without increasing its height of course), where at my browser size about 80% of space is just wasted.

Please could you look into this and give the "Find in Page" some long missing TLC? Ty.

[kadmil]

Hey guys, just wanted to tell that I've just spent better part of morning figuring out the way to do so. Snippets from forum don't work (had to add z-index to .find-in-page), and overall feels buggy. Would love to see the native support for the feature

[Pesala]

@kadmil This works fine for me.

/* Find in Page at Bottom*/
.find-in-page-wrapper {order: 2;}

An option in settings would obviously be preferable.

Find in Page as you Type would save showing the toolbar if a search string already exists.

Find Next/Previous without Showing Toolbar would be useful too.

[IrinaIsha]

Shocked that such an obvious and simple request hasn't been addressed after 6 years. This is part of why Firefox is still my main browser...

[mib2berlin]

@IrinaIsha
Hi, this request has 20 user votes since 2018.
As you can add the feature with one line of CSS code yourself I don't think this will be get much attention from the Vivaldi team.

Cheers, mib

[Pesala]

@mib2berlin I see things differently. Since it is so easy to do, it should not take long for a developer to add this option.

If it is hard to add an option in Settings, it could simply be on the Find in Page Toolbar itself. Users would find the option there more quickly, too.

There are a number of other requests for Find in Page, which are long overdue.

[barbudo2005]

@Pesala Said:

Since it is so easy to do, it should not take long for a developer to add this option.

And what happens when you have thousands (really thousands) of easy things to do?

[barbudo2005]

@Pesala
There is also another consideration to take into account in the requests:

Does it change the functionality of the search on the page on top or bottom?

No, it's just an aesthetic thing. And the developers are not for tastes, they are for functional and important things.

[Pesala]

@barbudo2005 Yes, it does change the functionality. The page content no longer moves if the toolbar is at the bottom.

[mib2berlin]

@Pesala
Hi, I don't vote for any of the find in page requests, I simply don`t need it.
I want the developer to spend all there time in features I need.

[Pesala]

@barbudo2005 They should implement as many of the easy ones first to give the impression that they do care about feature requests.

Easy to Implement Feature Requests.

[paul1149]

@Pesala Thanks. That works great, and indeed it is a pleasure to see it at the bottom, where its setting is much cleaner.

[Nebu]

I just realised that if we could make dialogue "floating" (like the option for panels), this would solve the problem of having to put the dialogue elsewhere (at the bottom), as making it floating would not push or alter the content at all.

This solves any layout issues without relocating the dialogue. Even at the bottom, it sometimes alters page layouts (e.g., on YouTube). It might be complex, but that's Vivaldi's forte, right?