Help With Javascript.

**XghostriderX** · 10-05-2003, 12:56 PM

This for all you script-guru's:

Yesterday I was trying to make a simple Jscript for my brother's homepage that allows to use different searchengines to search the web, but I was surprise when the script didn't work with Explorer, while it did with Opera 7.2.

Now here is what I wrote:

<HEAD>
<script type="text/javascript" >
function goToSearch()
{
    if (window.event.keyCode == 13)
    { 
            Search()
      }

}
function Search()
{
    term = window.document.searchform.querry.value ;
    location.href ="http://www.google.nl/search?q=" + term

}
</script >
</head>
<body>
<FORM name="searchform">
<input type='text' size='20' name='querry'  onKeyPress="goToSearch()">
<input type='button' size='10' value='Go' onclick="Search()">
</FORM>
bla blas
bla bla
.
.
.
.
</body>

did I do somthing wrong? Oh yeah I forgot the script works fine in Explorer & Opera in case I use the button instead of the Enter-key, but that just annoying. I mean everyone is use the type somethng in the the textfield and than hit the enter-key .
So the real problem is how to get this script to work with a the Enter-key?.
I tried onSumbit="", but that didn't work(It was a dumb move I know

). I also tried to copy the body of the second function to the first one, but that also didn't help.
One thing that did work for all browers was the open commad, if I use window.open() instead of loction.href="", I get no problems at all except that my brother doesn't want that.
So any help would be aprceiated guys.

PS: I apologize if this the wrong place to post such a problem.

**[B][O][T]** · 10-05-2003, 01:08 PM

Try this:

Code:

&#60;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34; &#62;
function goToSearch&#40;&#41;
{
  if &#40;window.event.keyCode == 13&#41;
  { 
      Search&#40;&#41;
   }

}
function Search&#40;&#41;
{
  term = window.document.searchform.querry.value;
  location.href =&#34;http&#58;//www.google.nl/search?q=&#34; + term

}
&#60;/script&#62;
&#60;body&#62;
&#60;FORM name=&#34;searchform&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#39;text&#39; size=&#39;20&#39; name=&#39;querry&#39; onKeyPress=&#34;goToSearch&#40;&#41;&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#39;button&#39; size=&#39;10&#39; value=&#39;Go&#39; onclick=&#34;Search&#40;&#41;&#34;&#62;
&#60;/FORM&#62;
bla blas
bla bla
.
.
.
.
&#60;/body&#62;
&#60;/script&#62;
&#60;/html&#62;

BOT

**XghostriderX** · 10-05-2003, 01:33 PM

Hi Bot!

You trick didn't work!
May i ask why did you add this tag </script> after the body tag? were you trying to put the form inside the script?

Anyway thanx for yoor help.

**[B][O][T]** · 10-05-2003, 06:42 PM

Sorry My fault, this code work:

Code:

&#60;HTML&#62;
&#60;HEAD&#62;

&#60;/HEAD&#62;

&#60;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34; &#62;
function goToSearch&#40;&#41;
{
 &nbsp; &nbsp;if &#40;window.event.keyCode == 13&#41;
 &nbsp; &nbsp;{ &nbsp;
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Search&#40;&#41;
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;}

}
function Search&#40;&#41;
{
 &nbsp; &nbsp;term = window.document.searchform.querry.value&#59;
 &nbsp; &nbsp;location.href =&#34;http&#58;//www.google.nl/search?q=&#34; + term

}
&#60;/script&#62;
&#60;body&#62;
&#60;FORM name=&#34;searchform&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#39;text&#39; size=&#39;20&#39; name=&#39;querry&#39; &nbsp;onKeyPress=&#34;goToSearch&#40;&#41;&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#39;button&#39; size=&#39;10&#39; value=&#39;Google&#39; onclick=&#34;Search&#40;&#41;&#34;&#62;
&#60;/FORM&#62;
bla
bla
&#60;/body&#62;
&#60;/HTML&#62;

BOT

VB · 10-05-2003, 06:48 PM

Better code would be:

Code:

&#60;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34;&#62;
function search&#40;&#41;
{
  term = window.document.searchform.query.value;
  location.href =&#34;http&#58;//www.google.nl/search?q=&#34; + term

}
&#60;/script&#62;
&#60;body&#62;
&#60;FORM name=&#34;searchform&#34; action=&#34;search&#40;&#41;;&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#34;text&#34; size=&#34;20&#34; name=&#34;query&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#34;button&#34; size=&#34;10&#34; value=&#34;Go&#34;&#62;
&#60;/FORM&#62;&#60;/body&#62;
&#60;/script&#62;
&#60;/html&#62;

**XghostriderX** · 10-05-2003, 07:11 PM

Hi Bot!

The code you posted is the same as my code. So let explain the problem agian.

What I wanna do is envoke the script by hitting the ENTER-key, not with clicking a button. is that possible? [ I'm no scriptkiddy, I usually get my cripts from internet, or just copy them from other poeple's pages.]

And Paul thanx for your reply, but I tried that code before and it works only with Opera [it's a shame that opera is not popular as IE].

VB · 10-05-2003, 07:58 PM

This works 100%:

Code:

&#60;html&#62;&#60;body&#62;&#60;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34;&#62;
function search&#40;&#41;
{
 term = document.searchform.query.value;
 location.href =&#34;http&#58;//www.google.nl/search?q=&#34; + term

}
&#60;/script&#62;
&#60;body&#62;
&#60;FORM name=&#34;searchform&#34; action=&#34;javascript&#58;search&#40;&#41;;&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#34;text&#34; size=&#34;20&#34; name=&#34;query&#34;&#62;
&#60;input type=&#34;submit&#34; value=&#34;Go&#34;&#62;
&#60;/FORM&#62;
&#60;/body&#62;
&#60;/html&#62;