JavaScript - Listbox Search Script?
Hi, I've been working on a company directory page where a listbox called "People" in a form called "people_form" contains 400 employee names. I made the box "multiple" just so I could have it big and easier to find names but I decided a search box would be really useful. I've looked up a few such search scripts but so far the two I've tried haven't worked. The latest one when it's installed on the page, nothing happens when you type characters into it (it's supposed to jump to an entry matching the first few letters). Although if I backspace then it selects EVERY name in the list
Here's the current form with the input tag being the search box (oh the options are populated by java script): <form name="people_form"> <input type="text" id="realtxt" onkeyup="searchSel()"></input> <select onchange="display(this.value); return false;" multiple="multiple" id="People" name="People" style="border-style: none; height:198px; width:220px;"> <option value="">Loading</option> </select></form> And here's the actual search function in the head of the page in the script tags: function searchSel() { var input=document.getElementById('realtxt').value.toLowerCase(); var output=document.getElementById('People').options; for(var i=0;i<output.length;i++) { if(output[i].value.indexOf(input)==0){ output[i].selected=true; } if(document.forms[0].realtxt.value==''){ output[0].selected=true; } } } If you know of a script that will work properly I'd appreciate it. For convenience I'm looking for one that jumps to selections inside the listbox as opposed to one where you click a search button and get results somewhere else. Similar TutorialsI have a page with three identical listbox containing items in the same order. When an element is selected from any of the three lists, the script should search for the occurrence of the same element in other two lists and remove them on the fly from all the three lists. How can this be achieved? A script to achieve this is welcomed. I've got this listbox full of hundreds of employee names. Clicking on a name executes a function using onchange. Because of the length of the list I decided a search function would be really handy and I finally found one that works. Now the search function, when you type in the input box, scrolls the list to the first matching entry. And that's good, that's what I wanted. The problem comes in when you try to click on the name the search function found. Nothing happens ofcourse because the onchange tag in the list reacts to changes, not direct clicks. <select onchange="display.apply(this, this.value.split(','))" multiple="multiple" id="People" name="People" style="border-style: none; height:260px; width:220px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <option selected="selected">Loading</option> </select> The list is populated by java but for testing I disabled the function that clears the "Loading" option and I set it to selected. That way the loading option is highlighted by default and the search function is free to highlight something else, then when I click on the search result it works like it's supposed to. But keeping a highlighted option at the top of the list for that sole purpose isn't very elegant, especially since if you click on it the onchange function tries to execute and generates errors. The only solution I can think of is to use java to generate another option way at the bottom of the list that has the selected attribute but I don't quite know how to do that. Does anyone have any thoughts on what I can do? Hi, I've been trying to find a script to "search this page", but most seem quite old and don't seem to be supported in modern browsers. I have no knowledge of JS, but wondered whether this could be adapted in any way Code: <!-- EXAMPLE FORM OF FIND-IN-PAGE SEARCH USING SUBMIT (ALLOWING 'ENTER/RETURN' KEY PRESS EVENT) --> <div ID= "findform"> <form name="form1" class="findform" onSubmit="search(document.form1, frametosearch); return false"><input type="text" name="findthis" size="15" title="Press 'ALT s' after clicking submit to repeatedly search page"> <input type="submit" value="Find in Page" ACCESSKEY="s"></form> </div> <script> <!-- Hide from old browsers /****************************************** * Find In Page Script -- Submitted/revised by Alan Koontz (alankoontz@REMOVETHISyahoo.com) * Visit Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/) for full source code * This notice must stay intact for use ******************************************/ // revised by Alan Koontz -- May 2003 var TRange = null; var dupeRange = null; var TestRange = null; var win = null; // SELECTED BROWSER SNIFFER COMPONENTS DOCUMENTED AT // http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html var nom = navigator.appName.toLowerCase(); var agt = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var is_major = parseInt(navigator.appVersion); var is_minor = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion); var is_ie = (agt.indexOf("msie") != -1); var is_ie4up = (is_ie && (is_major >= 4)); var is_not_moz = (agt.indexOf('netscape')!=-1) var is_nav = (nom.indexOf('netscape')!=-1); var is_nav4 = (is_nav && (is_major == 4)); var is_mac = (agt.indexOf("mac")!=-1); var is_gecko = (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1); var is_opera = (agt.indexOf("opera") != -1); // GECKO REVISION var is_rev=0 if (is_gecko) { temp = agt.split("rv:") is_rev = parseFloat(temp[1]) } // USE THE FOLLOWING VARIABLE TO CONFIGURE FRAMES TO SEARCH // (SELF OR CHILD FRAME) // If you want to search another frame, change from "self" to // the name of the target frame: // e.g., var frametosearch = 'main' //var frametosearch = 'main'; var frametosearch = self; function search(whichform, whichframe) { // TEST FOR IE5 FOR MAC (NO DOCUMENTATION) if (is_ie4up && is_mac) return; // TEST FOR NAV 6 (NO DOCUMENTATION) if (is_gecko && (is_rev <1)) return; // TEST FOR Opera (NO DOCUMENTATION) if (is_opera) return; // INITIALIZATIONS FOR FIND-IN-PAGE SEARCHES if(whichform.findthis.value!=null && whichform.findthis.value!='') { str = whichform.findthis.value; win = whichframe; var frameval=false; if(win!=self) { frameval=true; // this will enable Nav7 to search child frame win = parent.frames[whichframe]; } } else return; // i.e., no search string was entered var strFound; // NAVIGATOR 4 SPECIFIC CODE if(is_nav4 && (is_minor < 5)) { strFound=win.find(str); // case insensitive, forward search by default // There are 3 arguments available: // searchString: type string and it's the item to be searched // caseSensitive: boolean -- is search case sensitive? // backwards: boolean --should we also search backwards? // strFound=win.find(str, false, false) is the explicit // version of the above // The Mac version of Nav4 has wrapAround, but // cannot be specified in JS } // NAVIGATOR 7 and Mozilla rev 1+ SPECIFIC CODE (WILL NOT WORK WITH NAVIGATOR 6) if (is_gecko && (is_rev >= 1)) { if(frameval!=false) win.focus(); // force search in specified child frame strFound=win.find(str, false, false, true, false, frameval, false); // The following statement enables reversion of focus // back to the search box after each search event // allowing the user to press the ENTER key instead // of clicking the search button to continue search. // Note: tends to be buggy in Mozilla as of 1.3.1 // (see www.mozilla.org) so is excluded from users // of that browser. if (is_not_moz) whichform.findthis.focus(); // There are 7 arguments available: // searchString: type string and it's the item to be searched // caseSensitive: boolean -- is search case sensitive? // backwards: boolean --should we also search backwards? // wrapAround: boolean -- should we wrap the search? // wholeWord: boolean: should we search only for whole words // searchInFrames: boolean -- should we search in frames? // showDialog: boolean -- should we show the Find Dialog? } if (is_ie4up) { // EXPLORER-SPECIFIC CODE revised 5/21/03 if (TRange!=null) { TestRange=win.document.body.createTextRange(); if (dupeRange.inRange(TestRange)) { TRange.collapse(false); strFound=TRange.findText(str); if (strFound) { //the following line added by Mike and Susan Keenan, 7 June 2003 win.document.body.scrollTop = win.document.body.scrollTop + TRange.offsetTop; TRange.select(); } } else { TRange=win.document.body.createTextRange(); TRange.collapse(false); strFound=TRange.findText(str); if (strFound) { //the following line added by Mike and Susan Keenan, 7 June 2003 win.document.body.scrollTop = TRange.offsetTop; TRange.select(); } } } if (TRange==null || strFound==0) { TRange=win.document.body.createTextRange(); dupeRange = TRange.duplicate(); strFound=TRange.findText(str); if (strFound) { //the following line added by Mike and Susan Keenan, 7 June 2003 win.document.body.scrollTop = TRange.offsetTop; TRange.select(); } } } if (!strFound) alert ("String '"+str+"' not found!") // string not found } // --> </script> If not, does anybody of of any good alternatives. Many thanks I have been trying to find out how i can change this basic search script to be able to open on the same page, at the moment when you do a search it opens up on another page, i would like to be able to make this open on the same page, any help would be great! <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function search_google(){ window.open("http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q="+document.search.query.value); } //--> </script> <form name="search" onsubmit = "search_google()"> <input type="text" name="query" value=""> <input type="submit" value="Search Google" > </form> Ok after much research I have created a script that will search godaddy for domains using javascript. Now the problem is that it doesn't open in a new window when you click search. How do I get the script to open the godaddy results in a new window? btw target="_blank" isn't working. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Tim CODE: Code: <form onsubmit="var loc='http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/search.asp?domainToCheck='+this.elements[0].value+'/';location.href=loc;return false" method="post" action="" target="_blank"> <input name="query" size="38" style="border: 1px solid rgb(126, 157, 185);" value="" type="text"> <input name="Submit2" value="Search" id="Submit2" type="submit"> </form> I am having trouble implementing this script. I am not a coder so please give exact, idiot proof advise. :-) Thank You. <script> (function() { var cx = 'user_id:field_id1'; var gcse = document.createElement('script'); gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; gcse.async = true; gcse.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') + '//www.google.com/cse/cse.js?cx=' + cx; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s); // This basically takes the value of the radio button (requires jQuery) $("input:radio[name='GCSField']").change(function() { cx = $(this).val(); }); })(); </script> <label for="user1"> <input name=GCSField id="user1" type="radio" value="user_id:field_id1" checked >User Field 1 </label> <label for="user2"> <input name=GCSField id="user2" type="radio" value="user_id:field_id2">User Field 2 </label> <gcse:search></gcse:search> Here is my html. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><meta charset="UTF-8"> <!--[if lt IE 9]><script src=http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js></script><![endif]--> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <title>TEST</title> <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="viewport" content=" width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true"><meta name="MobileOptimized" content="320"> <style>body{width:100%;max-width:25em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;font-family:Verdana,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,'Book Antiqua',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify;font-size:105%;background-color:#000;background:#000;}p{margin-bottom:1%;}strong{font-size:115%;font-weight:bold;}a{line-height:200%;text-decoration:underline;color:#0007C6;}article{margin: 0 0 1% 0; color:#000;background:#FEE800;background-color:#FEE800; text-align: center;}</style> </head><body> <article> <div><script> (function() { var cx = 'user_id:field_id1'; var gcse = document.createElement('script'); gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; gcse.async = true; gcse.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') + '//www.google.com/cse/cse.js?cx=' + cx; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s); // This basically takes the value of the radio button (requires jQuery) $("input:radio[name='GCSField']").change(function() { cx = $(this).val(); }); })(); </script> <label for="user1"> <input name=GCSField id="user1" type="radio" value="011565775292567206849:xkh-s7ljiug" checked >User Field 1 </label> <label for="user2"> <input name=GCSField id="user2" type="radio" value="partner-pub-4173665486685435:n2tml3-z5vf">User Field 2 </label> <gcse:search></gcse:search></div> <div><gcse:searchresults></gcse:searchresults></div> </article> </body></html> Here is the above page off a server TEST Thanks again. Hi, I have an application wherein for one page I want to display a Listbox on selection of a radio button. There should be 2 radio buttons and when the user clicks on the 2nd one "My Process", a list box should be displayed with several options. Can anybody pls help me with this as I'm a beginner to JS.. Many thanks Pooja. Hi, Iam trying a simple fill listbox on the body load, but its not working. Can someone please help me on this Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <script language="javascript" src="script.js"></script> <body onload="fillCategory();"> <form id="drop_list" name="form1" method="post" action=""> <label> <select name="Category" id="Category"> </select> </label> </form> </body> </html> and my script.js: Code: function fillCategory(){ addOption(document.form1.Category, "Fiji", "Fiji", ""); addOption(document.form1.Category, "Australia", "Australia", ""); addOption(document.form1.Category, "New Zealand", "New Zealand", ""); } I am trying to populate a listbox using Javascript. The listbox is populated using the xml response from ajax request. Below is the code used for the same Code: var xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML; for (var i = 0; i < xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("id").length; i++) { traderlists.add(new Option(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("name")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue, xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("id")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue)); } This works fine for me. But i am facing performance issue here. some ajax requests retrieves xmls with around 11,000 nodes and this takes too much of time to populate the listbox. Can anyone please advice me with an better solution? I'm probably not allowed to request something like this, but since this is a small amount of code I think I should do it anyways :P Okey, so I have two listboxes and I want a tickbox to enable one listbox and disable one listbox as you tick a checkbox. I want one listbox disabled by default and the other enabled and then vice-verca the disable when you tick the box. If someone could supply me with that code I would be really greatful, butyou don't need to bother with the HTML, I should figure it out from the JS. Thanks in advance <3 hello I have a listbox full of names on a PHP website and was wondering if there was a way to grab the value during a double click to bring me to another form to display the name and information? Hi I've been working on a listbox full of employees for our company intranet. Each name has an onchange tag that calls up a floor map and that part works fine but I'd really like to populate the names from an XML list so it's easier for non-IT people to maintain. I've been doing alot of web searches on the subject which comes up alot but it's mostly just fragments of what I need being that I've got no javascript background. I found a helpful tutorial on javascriptkit but that wasn't for creating listboxes so I'm only part of the way there. This is the XML file I've got (there will eventually be 400 entries): <?xml version="1.0"?> <list> <employee> <name>##########</name> <office>1656</office> <officePH>(403)000-0000</officePH> <mobile>N/A</mobile> <email>##########</email> </employee> <employee> <name>#########</name> <office>1657</office> <officePH>(403)000-0000</officePH> <mobile>N/A</mobile> <email>###########</email> </employee> </list> The most important parts are the name which will be used as the text of the box and the office number which will determine which floorplan is displayed. I added the other information so I can potentially put it in a div display later but that can wait. Can anyone help point me to some good resources on this subject? Thanks. Hello, I'm trying to fill an array with the values of a listbox from a SQL query but somehow I can only get the first word of each registry Code: var arrayX=[]; function getValue(){ var x=document.getElementById("combo_color"); for (var i = 0; i < x.options.length; i++) { if(x[i].value!=''){ arrayX.push(x[i].value); } } } for example, with the color Green Karanka I only get Green inside the array, the same happens with any color with more than one word, any ideas? Thanks. Hi there, I have a listbox and an Edit button. The user will need to click on the email address in the listbox before clicking on the button to edit. But then, the email address will be displayed on the prompt box's textbox, and even without editing it, the user can get scot-free. I would want to remove the email address on the prompt box's textbox, and also to check for null entries. If it is null, it will display an alert message. Else, it will check if it is a valid email address. My code is as follow: Code: function editItem() { var listbox = document.getElementById('listBox'); // listbox control id var newValue = lst.value; if(newValue != "") { var newItem = prompt("Enter the new email address",newValue); if(newItem == "") { alert("Please key in an email address into the textbox."); return false; } else { listbox.options[listbox.selectedIndex] = new Option(newItem,newItem,false,false); return false; arrTexts = new Array(); validRegExp =/^\w+@[a-zA-Z_]+?\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}$/ // search email text for regular exp matches if (arrTexts.value.search(validRegExp) ==-1 ) { alert('A valid e-mail address is required.\nPlease try again.'); return false; } else { for(i=0; i<listbox.length; i++) { arrTexts[i] = lst.options[i].text; } arrTexts.sort(); for(i=0; i<listbox.length; i++) { listbox.options[i].text = arrTexts[i]; listbox.options[i].value = arrTexts[i]; } } } } else { alert('Select Item From The List To Edit '); } } HTML Code: select id="lstBxEmail" name="listBoxEmail" size="6" style="width: 580px;"> <option>figFruit@msn.com</option> <option>apple@hotmail.com</option> <option>cherry@yahoo.com</option> <option>banana@hotmail.com</option> <option>elephantApple@ymail.com</option> <option>durian@gmail.com</option> </select> <select id="listBox" name="listBox" size="3" style="width: 580px;"> <option>hello@msn.com</option> <option>wowAmusers@hotmail.com</option> <option>yrulikethis@yahoo.com</option> </select> Essentially, I have an ASP.net page where I load a record set server side and upload it into a listbox. I'm trying to do all the movement functionalities of the listbox items client side. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to copy selected listbox items from one listbox to another -- on button click. I've searched for a while, but every example that I found moves the actual item into another listbox, I just want to copy the selected item to another listbox. I'm very new to JavaScript, so ff someone can provide an example or pseudo code, I would greatly appreciate it. Hi, I would like to know how to add/remove items from listbox PERMANENTLY. Sad to say, all I have found are adding/removing items temporarily. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title>Untitled Page</title> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" > function addOption(selectbox,text,value ) { var optn = document.createElement("OPTION"); optn.text = text; optn.value = value; selectbox.options.add(optn); } function addOption_list(selectbox) { addOption(document.drop_list.SubCat, "One","One"); addOption(document.drop_list.SubCat, "Two","Two"); addOption(document.drop_list.SubCat, "Three","Three"); addOption(document.drop_list.SubCat, "Four","Four"); addOption(document.drop_list.SubCat, "Five","Five"); addOption(document.drop_list.SubCat, "Six","Six"); } function removeOptions(selectbox) { var i; for(i=selectbox.options.length-1;i>=0;i--) { if(selectbox.options[i].selected) selectbox.remove(i); } } </script> </head> <body onload="addOption_list()";> <form name="drop_list" action="default.aspx" method="post" > <select id="SubCat" name="SubCat" MULTIPLE size="6" width="10"></select> <input type="button" onclick="removeOptions(SubCat)"; value='Remove Selected' /> <input type="button" onclick="addOption_list()"; value='Add All' /> </form> </body> </html> Please advise me on the problem. if i have a large script built multi-select-list-box, is there a way within javascript to onClick of a hyperlink, jump-to the line within the select box that corresponds to the value clicked?
Hi there, I have this listbox that I want the user to select only one choice at a time. How do I disable the multiple selection feature in javascript? <select id="lstBxEmail" name="listBoxEmail" multiple="multiple" style="width: 580px;"> <option>Java</option> <option>PHP</option> <option>Perl</option> <option>Javascript</option> <option>C#</option> <option>Powershell</option> </select> <select id="lstBxEmail" name="listBoxEmail" multiple="multiple" style="width: 580px;"> <option>Java</option> <option>PHP</option> <option>Perl</option> <option>Javascript</option> <option>C#</option> <option>Powershell</option> </select> Hi there, I would like to do the following: When I click on a button, it will set the item in the listbox to be bold. But this will only happen when the user clicks on the desired item to be bold and presses the button. An alert message will occur when he/she presses the button without clicking on the item, stating that the user will need to click on the item. How shoukld I do it in javascript? |