HTML - Drop Down Menu Search Option Advice
Hi, does anybody have a link that could point me in the right direction of learning about a drop down menu that is used as a search option? Such as in this site here-
click me! So basically the viewer can enter one of two fields to bring back the relevant info, in this case either a designer or price range option. I've not done one of these before, but think it would be useful on my site! advice appreciated, thanks!! Similar TutorialsHi All, I was able to Highlight in yellow a sentence. But it doesn't work on the Option / Drop Down Menu sentence. Please HEEEELLLLP me find my mistake(s) BELOW: Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title> Yellow Hightlight </title> </head> <body bgcolor="#00CCFF"> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload=function() { document.getElementById('NewsletterList').onchange=function() { window.location=('http://www.example.com/'+this.value+''); } } </script> <select id="NewsletterList"> <option value=""><P> <FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"> PLEASE SELECT THE FOLLOWING: </FONT> CLICK This Box and Select!</P> </option> <!--this option takes you to your home page--> <option value="xxxxx">yyyy</option><!--this option takes you to . . . . . </body> </html> First off, this forum seems great! I've been stressing over this for a while now and hope someone can point me in the right direction... I'm not looking for a freebie, just some guiding light. I'm making a homepage for myself, and to avoid visiting a thousand search engine sites individually I'd like to make my own drop down menu to search from. I have it set up with a text box, drop down menu and a submit button... I'd like to be able to enter my text, select the search engine I'd like to use and then click submit and have a new window open with the search engine site and the search results (pretty much cut out the search engine main pages)... Has anyone done this? Any info will be greatly appreciated... Thanks! Jim. Another idea that I've had is to be able to select multiple search engine and have multiple windows open up... Save some time... Anyhow, Thanks so much... Hi guys, Have a question regarding searching on a page. Basically I have a tabbed content section for our intrasite - Currently, our setup is a knowledge base derived from Lotus Notes - We are moving out of that and I'm making an HTML driven database - My boss won't approve MySQL, he want's to use access, but we aren't at that point yet. What we are shooting for is for our employees to be able to hit CTRL-F and type in a string of data (within the tabs) and have it open the tab (shift if necessary) and highlight the string listed. Currently I have the following files created - but I'm not sure how to make it searchable. Is this possible? or is there another way of going about doing this? Thanks! I am trying to create a FORM with multiple option radio buttons. Basically this is a ready script I found on the internet. I have tried to customize it but there is a slight problem which I have been unable to fix after a lot of tries. In the below code, I am trying to open the following URLs on submit. http://www.pixmac.com/pictures/"searchterms"?a=kcalpesh http://www.crestock.com/image-keyword/"searchterms".aspx/112582/ In both the URLs the "searchterms" is dynamic and will be picked from the input box present in the form. PROBLEM PART! On submission, the URL that opens is only up to http://www.pixmac.com/pictures/"searchterms" and the affiliate ID after that gets missed. Same with the other URL on submission, the URL that opens is http://www.crestock.com/image-keyword/"searchterms" and again the affiliate ID gets missed out. Below is the complete page code for the FORM. Any help will be highly appreciated. I am not a coder and have very limited knowledge of HTML / Javascript!! <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Untitled Document</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function dosearch() { var sf=document.searchform; var submitto = sf.sengines.options[sf.sengines.selectedIndex].value + escape(sf.searchterms.value); window.open(submitto); return false; } </script> </head> <body> <form name="searchform" onsubmit="dosearch();"> Search: <select name="sengines"> <option value="http://www.pixmac.com/pictures/"searchterms"?a=kcalpesh" selected="selected">Pixmac</option> <option value="http://www.crestock.com/image-keyword/"searchterms".aspx/112582/">Crestock</option> </select> For: <input name="searchterms" type="text"> <input name="SearchSubmit" value="Search" type="submit"> </form> </body> </html> Hey all, I've been looking all over the net for a tutorail about this, but I can't seem to find one. What I'm trying to do is make a drop-down box where you can select an option, press a submit button, and it'll open up a new window *or tab for firefox users* pertaining to that information, such as a site that I choose to link to it. This is the code I'm using for my option box <div align="left"> <select name="xfer" size="1" style="color:000000; background-color:226622; font-family:trebuchet ms; font-size:11px; border:thin solid "ffffff;> <option></option> </select> </div></form> I'm totally stumped here. Any help would be greatly appreciated! -Cheers, Billy Hello Everyone, I have two pairs of jsp + servlet. The first jsp asks user to select an option from the drop down box and then on the click of submit button, passes this info to another servlet, who processes the data from db based on the input and displays the requested data in a table using second jsp page. My code is working but I'm trying to make my code look more appealing. Here is what the problem is: 1. The first page just has two drop down boxes with rest of the page blank. 2. Once the user selects the choice from first page, second page is displayed which does not anymore display what user chose in the drop down. What I want: is that initially the first page contains only drop down but as soon as the user hits the submit button, instead of loading a whole new page, the requested data is displayed right below the drop down boxes. Will this require to combine two jsp pages into one.....if yes, how do I make the table disappear the first time until some input is chosen. I know this is very basic html but as this is my first time, will appreciate the help. Thanks. Hey all! I'm trying to set a predefined value in a <select> menu, that is to say, I want something to be highlighted before the user does anything. I've tried the following: <select name="test" size="2" value="x"> <option>x</option><option>y</option> </select> This does not work. Any advice would be great! Thanks for your time. Hi All, I was told to correct some basic mistakes and if I still needed help, to ask for help. Well, 1 month later I was able to correct some errors and now 5 from the 8 Options Choices are working. NEED HELP WITH THE DEFAULT/WHEN TYPING THE URL AND 2 MORE OPTIONS WHICH DOESN'T WORK. I am a beginner, so I believe that the intermediates and experts can help me. The site works fine from here, since it filter errors. Actually it works with all browsers except Internet explorer 7-9. http://www.homeless-forum.org Please find the Option menu below to finally help me find the rest few errors : HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks in advanced and GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <head> <title> HFHF Homeless Formerly Homeless Forum www.homeless-forum.com</title> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload=function() { document.getElementById('NewsletterList').onchange=function() { window.location=('http://www.homeless-forum.org/'+this.value+''); } } </script> <body bgcolor="#00CCFF"> <select id="NewsletterList"> <br /> <option value=""><b><em> PLEASE CLICK This Box and Select! 'Internet Explorer 8 or 9 BETA is NOT Recommended, Until They FIX All Their BUGS'. </b></em></option><!--this option takes you to your home page--> <option value="news7">Newsletter 2010</option><!--this option takes you to your newsletter 2010--> <option value="news3">Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Homeless Pioneer Pics. </option><!--this option takes you to your newsletter 3--> <option value="news4">High Quality Pictures, Videos, Slide Shows and MUCH MORE. 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HFHF Newsletters 2010, VIDEOS, "IE9-Microsoft-Reply, ETC.</option> </select> geovisit(); </script><noscript><img src="http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1306942201" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 14"> <link rel=File-List href="hfhf-newsltr-2010_files/filelist.xml"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="hfhf-newsltr-2010_files/editdata.mso"> <!--[if !mso]> Hey all, New to the forum here, looks like a great place! Anyhow, need some help / direction. I've been given the task to create an intranet search engine at work, but the level of coding is a bit over my head, so any help would be much appreciated. Long story short - I need to make a search with drop downs and I can't figure out how to make all three drop downs dictate what is searched for. Take a look at the two drop down set up KBB has for an idea of what I mean: http://www.kbb.com/kbb/NewCars/defau...=41&ModelId=23. I'm pretty sure this can all be done in HTML, but if I'm wrong tell me. Can anyone help on this or atleast point me in the right direction? Thanks a bunch! Steph hi everyone, ok heres my problem that is bugging me. I have a ecommerce website that im setting up and it comes with a default search feature. Code: <form name="quick_find" action="MYDOMAIN/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="advanced_search_result" /> <input type="hidden" name="search_in_description" value="1" /> <input type="text" name="keyword" size="18" maxlength="100" style="width: 103px; margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle;" value="" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Enter search keywords here') this.value = '';" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" style="width: 50px; vertical-align:middle;" /> </form> on my site i sell music LP's and each lp has in its description the year it was released. If i was to put in the above form "1996" it would search all my products and return any that have "1996" in their desctiption. With this in mind i would like to create a form that had 4 drop down boxes. day,month,year,country I have created the following code below; Code: <form name="quick_find_header" action="MYDOMAIN/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="main_page" value="advanced_search_result" /> <input type="hidden" name="search_in_description" value="1" /> <select name="keyword"> <option value="1952">1952</option> <option value="1953">1953</option> <option value="1954">1954</option> <option value="1955">1955</option> <option value="1956">1956</option> <option value="1957">1957</option> <option value="1958">1958</option> <option value="1959">1959</option> <option value="1960">1960</option> <option value="1961">1961</option> <option value="1962">1962</option> <option value="1963">1963</option> <option value="1964">1964</option> <option value="1965">1965</option> <option selected value="1966">1966</option> <option value="1967">1967</option> <option value="1968">1968</option> <option value="1969">1969</option> <option value="1970">1970</option> <option value="1971">1971</option> <option value="1972">1972</option> <option value="1973">1973</option> <option value="1974">1974</option> <option value="1975">1975</option> <option value="1976">1976</option> <option value="1977">1977</option> <option value="1978">1978</option> <option value="1979">1979</option> <option value="1980">1980</option> <option value="1981">1981</option> <option value="1982">1982</option> <option value="1983">1983</option> <option value="1984">1984</option> <option value="1985">1985</option> <option value="1986">1986</option> <option value="1987">1987</option> <option value="1988">1988</option> <option value="1989">1989</option> <option value="1990">1990</option> <option value="1991">1991</option> <option value="1992">1992</option> <option value="1993">1993</option> <option value="1994">1994</option> <option value="1995">1995</option> <option value="1996">1996</option> <option value="1997">1997</option> <option value="1998">1998</option> <option value="1999">1999</option> <option value="2000">2000</option> <option value="2001">2001</option> <option value="2002">2002</option> <option value="2003">2003</option> <option value="2004">2004</option> <option value="2005">2005</option> </select> <select name="keyword"> <option value="01">Jan</option> <option value="02">Feb</option> <option value="03">Mar</option> <option value="04">Apr</option> <option value="05">May</option> <option value="06">Jun</option> <option selected value="07">Jul</option> <option value="08">Aug</option> <option value="09">Sep</option> <option value="10">Oct</option> <option value="11">Nov</option> <option value="12">Dec</option> </select> <select name="keyword"> <option value="01">01</option> <option value="02">02</option> <option value="03">03</option> <option value="04">04</option> <option value="05">05</option> <option value="06">06</option> <option value="07">07</option> <option selected value="08">08</option> <option value="09">09</option> <option value="10">10</option> <option value="11">11</option> <option value="12">12</option> <option value="13">13</option> <option value="14">14</option> <option value="15">15</option> <option value="16">16</option> <option value="17">17</option> <option value="18">18</option> <option value="19">19</option> <option value="20">20</option> <option value="21">21</option> <option value="22">22</option> <option value="23">23</option> <option value="24">24</option> <option value="25">25</option> <option value="26">26</option> <option value="27">27</option> <option value="28">28</option> <option value="29">29</option> <option value="30">30</option> <option value="31">31</option> </select> <input type="image" src="includes/templates/theme013/buttons/english/button_search.gif" alt="Search" title=" Search " style="margin-left:1px;" /> </form> this gives me 3 drop down box's (YEAR,MONTH,DAY) The problem is when i click search it only searches for the year. instead of combining all the selected data (e.g. 1996+JUN+23) it just searched for 1996. The second problem is if someone managed to get this form to work, would it search for "1996JUN23" or "1996 JUN 23". The reason i ask this is my products descriptions say "this single was released on 23 June 1996" I hope ive made all the above clear!! Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance We are doing a website for our shop and need a place where our local dealers can come online and see what we have in stock. i need to have 4 drop down boxes: 1) rim size, 2)brand 3)offset 4)bolt pattern. but they dont have to have all 4 criterias to seach so they can search all the 20 inch rims no matter what brand. i was thinking this is something similar to the one on cardomain.com (towards the middle of the left side. it says browse community and then has 2 boxes and a go button). please advise. thank you So I'd like to have a 160*600 box with hyperlinks displaying only a headlines I select. I would like the bottom of the box to have arrows for navigating between sections of links that fit in the box with a place to enter a page number in between them. I would like it to begin with displaying the most recently posted links starting on the last page number with that being the first page it displays. I want the bottom of the box to include below the browsing chronological browsing feature an arrow facing left with the word "search" that would open a box with a place to type in text for it to search link headlines. At the bottom of the search box I would like an arrow facing down with the words "search by label". Yes, I would like to not only select a headline for each link but also categorically label them. If I could also select images for it to automatically fill the empty space with when a new page number is started that would be great, even better if it selects ones that fill the most depending on how long the headlines are. If it repeated headlines in extra page space instead of showing images that would be cool too. I'd also like it to automatically expand in height past 160*600 to make a new page number just for a headline that doesn't fit in 160*600. I need this in HTML. My blog is episin.blogspot.com The tutorial on how to make a search form with multiple search options was excellent! http://www.mediacollege.com/internet...ti-search.html However, is it possible to use radio buttons instead of a drop-down list? Can someone be kind enough to show me the code for it? Million thanks. Hi All! I would like to make a drop down box with all the departments of my company. Basically the user would select a dept and without refreshing or opening a new page the information would appear below. I have seen this before using a database but is there a way to do it without? Hi All, This is my first post so please be kind I am currently trying to create 3 drop down menus in a top frame going across the top of the page. This is my first time trying to do anything like this and have run into a few issues i cant get my head around nor find an answer on the net. The code i have so far is this: _______________________________________________________________ <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Test</TITLE> <BODY> </BODY> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- function dropdown(mySel) { var myWin, myVal; myVal = mySel.options[mySel.selectedIndex].value; if(myVal) { if(mySel.form.target)myWin = parent[mySel.form.target]; else myWin = window; if (! myWin) return true; myWin.location = myVal; } return false; } //--> </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <div align="center"> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" width=500> <FORM METHOD=POST onSubmit="return dropdown(this.gourl)" TARGET=MAIN > <SELECT NAME="gourl"> <OPTION VALUE="">Choose a Destination... <OPTION VALUE="C:\Users\Desktop\a.htm">User Manuals </SELECT> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Go"> </FORM> <FORM METHOD=POST onSubmit="return dropdown(this.gourl)" TARGET=MAIN > <SELECT NAME="gourl"> <OPTION VALUE="">Choose a Destination... <OPTION VALUE="C:\Users\Desktop\a.htm">User Manuals </SELECT> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Go"> </FORM> <FORM METHOD=POST onSubmit="return dropdown(this.gourl)" TARGET=MAIN > <SELECT NAME="gourl"> <OPTION VALUE="">Choose a Destination... <OPTION VALUE="C:\Users\Desktop\a.htm">User Manuals </SELECT> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Go"> </FORM> </HTML> _______________________________________________________________ 1) When selecting 'User Manuals' on the drop down box, it opens up a new window and directs me back to the home page? 2) i am unsure as to how you place the drop down boxes side by side aligned at the top of the page? Is anyone able to help me out here? Cheers in advance I have a drop down menu on my page, and I want to change the background color of the box from white to match the rest of the page, how do I do this. Thanks Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="language" content="english"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title>Welcome to my Home Page</title> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> ////The source for this script came from http://allwebco-templates.com/support/S_menus_dropdown.htm//// ///For the Game,I changed the back ground picture. I realize it's not JS/// <!-- function land(ref, target) { lowtarget=target.toLowerCase(); if (lowtarget=="_self") {window.location=loc;} else {if (lowtarget=="_top") {top.location=loc;} else {if (lowtarget=="_blank") {window.open(loc);} else {if (lowtarget=="_parent") {parent.location=loc;} else {parent.frames[target].location=loc;}; }}} } function jump(menu) { ref=menu.choice.options[menu.choice.selectedIndex].value; splitc=ref.lastIndexOf("*"); target=""; if (splitc!=-1) {loc=ref.substring(0,splitc); target=ref.substring(splitc+1,1000);} else {loc=ref; target="_self";}; if (ref != "") {land(loc,target);} } //--> <!-- /// The JS below is for the date and time. and i got the sorce from http://www.re-es.org/ /// var day_names = new Array(7) day_names[0] = "Sunday" day_names[1] = "Monday" day_names[2] = "Tuesday" day_names[3] = "Wednesday" day_names[4] = "Thursday" day_names[5] = "Friday" day_names[6] = "Saturday" var month_names = new Array(12) month_names[0] = "January" month_names[1] = "February" month_names[2] = "March" month_names[3] = "April" month_names[4] = "May" month_names[5] = "June" month_names[6] = "July" month_names[7] = "August" month_names[8] = "September" month_names[9] = "October" month_names[10] = "November" month_names[11] = "December" date_now = new Date() day_value = date_now.getDay() date_text = day_names[day_value] month_value = date_now.getMonth() date_text += " " + month_names[month_value] date_text += " " + date_now.getDate() date_text += ", " + date_now.getFullYear() minute_value = date_now.getMinutes() if (minute_value < 10) { minute_value = "0" + minute_value } hour_value = date_now.getHours() if (hour_value == 0) { greeting = "Good Morning " time_text = " at " + (hour_value + 12) + ":" + minute_value + " AM" } else if (hour_value < 12) { greeting = "Good Morning " time_text = " at " + hour_value + ":" + minute_value + " AM" } else if (hour_value == 12) { greeting = "Good Afternoon " time_text = " at " + hour_value + ":" + minute_value + " PM" } else if (hour_value < 17) { greeting = "Good Afternoon " time_text = " at " + (hour_value - 12) + ":" + minute_value + " PM" } else { greeting = "Good Evening" time_text = " at " + (hour_value - 12) + ":" + minute_value + " PM" } document.write(greeting + " Today is " + date_text + time_text) //--> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <p><img id="banner" src="images/banner.gif" alt="banner"></p><hr color="#FF0000"></p> <ul id="nav"> <li><form action="#" method="post"> <select name="choice" size="1" onChange="jump(this.form)" class="dropdown"> <option value="index.html" selected>Home</option> <option value="scripts_developed.html">Scripts Developed</option> <option value="best_practices.html">Best practices for JavaScript coding</option> <option value="ajax.html">AJAX</option> <option value="JavaScript_frustrations.html">JavaScript frustrations & Javascript Game</option> </select> </form> </li> </ul> <div id="content"></div> </div> <table width="1050" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="center"><p><img src="images/logo1.gif" width="300" height="300" hspace="30"><img src="images/logo3.gif" width="300" height="300"><img src="images/logo2.gif" width="300" height="300"></p> <p><img src="images/logo4.gif" width="300" height="300" hspace="30"><img src="images/logo5.gif" width="300" height="300"><img src="images/logo6.gif" width="300" height="300"></p></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> </body> </html> Hi all, I can't for the life of me get the submenus to work. Here is my basic code and style sheet. How and where do I get a sub menu working on the navigation to display when you hover over it. I.E. hovering over 'News' displays sub menu of 'today', 'tomorrow'... Hey guys, I need help making a drop down menu. I know how to make a basic one, but this is what I need... I want to have 4 drop down menus, with about 4 choices in each one. Under them I need a 'Submit" button. Basically, I need it so that any combination of the 4 choices in the 4 menus will open a specific page. For instance, lets say in menu 1 I pick the word "cat". In menu 2, I pick the word "dog". In menu 3 I pick the word "car". In menu 4 I pick the word "tree". Once I click submit, a page with a picture of a cat, dog, tree and car would open up. (I would provide all the possible different pictures). So how would one do this? Any help is GREATLY appreciated, thanks! So, I am new to html, but I want my site to have a drop down menu, much like that of IBM's. http://www.ibm.com/us/en/sandbox/ver2/ Is this even possible with HTML? If so, where do I start? Regards, YahtzeeFish I have the following drop down menu. HTML Code: <form> <select name="menu" style="font-family:'Arial';color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"> <option value="no link no action">title of menu</option> <option value="url 1">link 1</option> <option value="url 2">link 2</option> <option value="url 3">link 3</option> <option value="url 4">link 4</option> </select> <input type="button" onClick="location=this.form.menu.options[this.form.menu.selectedIndex].value;" value="GO" style="font-family:'Arial';color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"> </form> Here is a screen capture of what the menu looks like. It's at this point I want no action to take place when "go" is clicked. As it is now (above code) it refreshes current page. My question is how do I change this so that the first "option" has no action when chosen and then "go" is clicked. As is is right now it refreshes the current page being that between the quotes <option value=" HERE ">title of menu</option> there isn't a link because I don't want this option to do anything. Basically when the drop down menu shows "title of menu" and I click on "go" I want nothing to happen instead of a refresh. |