Bug 304174

Summary: Find-in-page should scroll to revealed matches
Product: WebKit Reporter: Jake Archibald <jaffathecake>
Component: WebKit Misc.Assignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: ntim, simon.fraser, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Jake Archibald
Reported 2025-12-15 03:58:05 PST
Created attachment 477731 [details] Demo of bug When found text (eg via cmd-f) is revealed, as in it was inside a `<div hidden="until-found">` or `<details>`, the page should be scrolled to the match. Right now WebKit doesn't appear to scroll at all. [Demo](https://random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/until-found-scroll/). I've attached a video of the same bug in Firefox, in case it isn't clear.
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2025-12-15 03:58 PST, Jake Archibald 		no flags
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2025-12-22 03:59:12 PST
<rdar://problem/167016515>
Tim Nguyen (:ntim)
Comment 2 2026-04-08 18:21:44 PDT
There's no step in the spec that says to scroll to the item: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#ancestor-revealing-algorithm
Tim Nguyen (:ntim)
Comment 3 2026-04-08 18:23:39 PDT
Oh I guess it's implied as part of find-in-page.
Jake Archibald
Comment 4 2026-04-08 20:36:17 PDT
Exactly. It's important that it scrolls to the matched text and not just the revealed element.
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