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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "domstubs.idl"
interface mozIDOMWindowProxy;
/* THIS IS A PUBLIC EMBEDDING API */
/**
* nsIWebBrowserFind
*
* Searches for text in a web browser.
*
* Get one by doing a GetInterface on an nsIWebBrowser.
*
* By default, the implementation will search the focussed frame, or
* if there is no focussed frame, the web browser content area. It
* does not by default search subframes or iframes. To change this
* behaviour, and to explicitly set the frame to search,
* QueryInterface to nsIWebBrowserFindInFrames.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(e4920136-b3e0-49e0-b1cd-6c783d2591a8)]
interface nsIWebBrowserFind : nsISupports
{
/**
* findNext
*
* Finds, highlights, and scrolls into view the next occurrence of the
* search string, using the current search settings. Fails if the
* search string is empty.
*
* @return Whether an occurrence was found
*/
boolean findNext();
/**
* searchString
*
* The string to search for. This must be non-empty to search.
*/
attribute AString searchString;
/**
* findBackwards
*
* Whether to find backwards (towards the beginning of the document).
* Default is false (search forward).
*/
attribute boolean findBackwards;
/**
* wrapFind
*
* Whether the search wraps around to the start (or end) of the document
* if no match was found between the current position and the end (or
* beginning). Works correctly when searching backwards. Default is
* false.
*/
attribute boolean wrapFind;
/**
* entireWord
*
* Whether to match entire words only. Default is false.
*/
attribute boolean entireWord;
/**
* matchCase
*
* Whether to match case (case sensitive) when searching. Default is false.
*/
attribute boolean matchCase;
/**
* matchDiacritics
*
* Whether to match diacritics when searching. Default is false.
*/
attribute boolean matchDiacritics;
/**
* searchFrames
*
* Whether to search through all frames in the content area. Default is true.
*
* Note that you can control whether the search propagates into child or
* parent frames explicitly using nsIWebBrowserFindInFrames, but if one,
* but not both, of searchSubframes and searchParentFrames are set, this
* returns false.
*/
attribute boolean searchFrames;
};
/**
* nsIWebBrowserFindInFrames
*
* Controls how find behaves when multiple frames or iframes are present.
*
* Get by doing a QueryInterface from nsIWebBrowserFind.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(e0f5d182-34bc-11d5-be5b-b760676c6ebc)]
interface nsIWebBrowserFindInFrames : nsISupports
{
/**
* currentSearchFrame
*
* Frame at which to start the search. Once the search is done, this will
* be set to be the last frame searched, whether or not a result was found.
* Has to be equal to or contained within the rootSearchFrame.
*/
attribute mozIDOMWindowProxy currentSearchFrame;
/**
* rootSearchFrame
*
* Frame within which to confine the search (normally the content area frame).
* Set this to only search a subtree of the frame hierarchy.
*/
attribute mozIDOMWindowProxy rootSearchFrame;
/**
* searchSubframes
*
* Whether to recurse down into subframes while searching. Default is true.
*
* Setting nsIWebBrowserfind.searchFrames to true sets this to true.
*/
attribute boolean searchSubframes;
/**
* searchParentFrames
*
* Whether to allow the search to propagate out of the currentSearchFrame into its
* parent frame(s). Search is always confined within the rootSearchFrame. Default
* is true.
*
* Setting nsIWebBrowserfind.searchFrames to true sets this to true.
*/
attribute boolean searchParentFrames;
};