Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Archive/Search and replace box (safari)

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Search and replace box (safari)

N Proposes existing solution

Problem: search and replace box (editing iPad, classic view) is a really big help (as long as safari internal search removes all hits in the edit field - data loss may happen. we cannot wait until they fix that problem)! However the box should consume a minimum of display area!
Who would benefit: Editors
Proposed solution: Minimize distance between fields
More comments: The box seems to be available with IPad editing but not on Windows PC/NB, same user.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Ernsts (talk) 12:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Ernsts Does the "Find and Replace" functionality through the icon resolved this? KSiebert (WMF) (talk) 16:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A search and replace function is already available when editing from a PC. If using the 2010 wikitext editor, click on Advanced and then click the icon. If you're using Visual Editor, click on and then choose "Find and Replace..." (or just hit Ctrl+F).

Hello, thanks for the answer. I sse the option now as in en as in de ("Erweitert") Version on PC. The obly remaining issue is that the box consumes unneccessary space, esp. on iPad. Hits are behind the box in most cases (however, the box has a see-thru property :-) ). Best wishes! --Ernsts (talk) 17:24, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Per above, we'll archive this proposal since it asks for an existing feature. Thanks for participating in the survey, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 05:15, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]