I am trying to add a Google search box to my own website. I would like it to search Google itself, not my site. There was some code I had that use to work, but no longer does:
<form method="get" action="https://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="g" size="31" value="">
</form>
When I try making a search, it just directs to the Google homepage. Well, actually it directs here: https://www.google.com/webhp
Does anyone have a different solution? What am I doing wrong?
Sorry for replying on an older question, but I would like to clarify the last question.
You use a "get" method for your form.
When the name of your input-field is "g", it will make a URL like this:
https://www.google.com/search?g=[value from input-field]
But when you search with google, you notice the following URL:
https://www.google.nl/search?q=google+search+bar
Google uses the "q" Querystring variable as it's search-query.
Therefor, renaming your field from "g" to "q" solved the problem.
This is one of the way to add google site search to websites:
<form action="https://www.google.com/search" class="searchform" method="get" name="searchform" target="_blank">
<input name="sitesearch" type="hidden" value="example.com">
<input autocomplete="on" class="form-control search" name="q" placeholder="Search in example.com" required="required" type="text">
<button class="button" type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
Figured it out, folks! for the NAME of the text box, you have to use "q". I had "g" just for my own personal preferences. But apparently it has to be "q".
Anyone know why?
(The reason your code isn't working is because the GET request name is now "q" instead of "g".
I recommend using one of the two methods below:
Method 1: Simply send a GET request directly to Google (Best and most simple option)
<form method="GET" action="https://www.google.com/search">
<input name="q" type="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Another (more complicated) answer would be
Method 2: Use JS to redirect to Google
<textarea id="searchterm"></textarea><button
onclick="search()">Search</button>
<script>
function search() {
var Blah = document.getElementById("searchterm").value;
location.replace("https://www.google.com/search?q=" + searchterm + "");
}
</script>
Hope this helps!
From 13 March 2021. I make this very easy code for my website https://neculaifantanaru.com/en/how-can-i-integrate-google-search-box-to-my-website-by-implementing-custom-code.html
First Step. This is the search box. Copy this code where you want in your html/php pages. People will search here the information. This form will send the search results to another html page called search.html
<form action="https://YOUR-WEBSITE.com/search.html" method="get" id="site-search">
<fieldset>
<!-- <label for="search">Search in website</label> -->
<input type="text" name="q" id="q" value="" />
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-inverse">search</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
Second Step. Create a new html page named search.html. And add this code in the <head> section, more likely before </head>:
<script>
(function() {
var cx = 'YOUR-NUMBER-CODE';
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);
})();
</script>
YOUR-NUMBER-CODE you can get from this link https://cse.google.com/cse/all (Here you must add your new search engine.. Also, put OFF on the option "Search the entire web" in order to find results only on your website, not the entire web)
Step Three. Copy this code in the <body> section on the same page: search.html
<div class="main-content">
<h1>Search the site</h1><p>If you want to search for our articles on a specific topic, write the search term in the form below.</p>
<gcse:searchbox-only></gcse:searchbox-only>
<gcse:searchresults-only></gcse:searchresults-only>
</div>
THAT'S ALL.
Related
I have this code that needs to be adapted to work with something similar to the code below the commented line. If I can make it without many changes would be perfect so that I don't need to change the CSS and so. Any help? Many thanks in advance.
<!-- The code to be adapted is this: -->
<form action="" id="search-form">
<fieldset>
<input type="text" class="text" /><input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
<!-- The new code that I got from the web and that needs to be adapted to the old one
is the following: -->
<textarea id="Blah"></textarea><button onclick="search()">Search</button>
<script>
function search() {
var Blah = document.getElementById("Blah").value;
location.replace("https://www.google.com/search?q=" + Blah + "");
}
</script>
I'm imagining you probably want something like
document.querySelector("#searchButton").addEventListener("click", ()=>{
const value = document.querySelector("#searchBox").value;
const url = `https://www.google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(value)}`;
window.location.replace(url);
});
<fieldset>
<input type="text" class="search" id="searchBox">
<Button id="searchButton">Search</button>
</fieldset>
The id attribute on HTML elements allows you to access them via JavaScript. There's a wealth of tutorials online if you want to learn JavaScript deeply, but the basics of what this is doing is:
It finds the HTML element with the id of searchButton, and adds a click listener to it --- this gets triggered whenever that element is clicked.
In that listener, we find the value of the text input with the id of searchBox.
We compose our new URL. One thing I've added here is a call to encodeURIComponent to correctly handle the cases where they try searching for something which contains a character which isn't valid in a URL --- for example, the space character etc.
It was not working as I wanted, but a little trick made it work.
Here is my final code:
<form action="" id="search-form">
<fieldset>
<input type="text" class="search" id="searchBox">
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
<script>
let myvar;
document.querySelector(".submit").addEventListener("click", ()=>{
const value = document.querySelector("#searchBox").value;
myvar = `https://www.google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(value)}`;
setTimeout(callurl, 1);
return false;
});
function callurl() {
location.assign(myvar);
return false;
}
</script>
So I am making a VERY simple Chrome extension which allows someone to click it, then type in a French word, it will then take the word and redirect you to a french dictionary.
Here is the relevant code:
<div id="pattern" class="pattern">
<form action="http://www.wordreference.com/fren/" method="get" class="f" target="_blank">
<input type="search" name="query" placeholder="Search Videos.." />
<input type="submit" class="btn search-submit" value="Search">
</form>
However this does not work, when I enter in a word, instead of taking me to
www.wordreference.com/fren/Bonjour
It takes me to
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/?query=Bonjour
Thanks in advance guys!
Should be noted changing the text query to 'a' will take me to
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/?a=Bonjour
Use POST method in form.
<form id="my_form" class="f">....</form>
target="_blank" is for a tag (not in form):
Test url
If you want to change the output URL.
Try to use redirect method (script) like:
window.location.href = custom_url+'?'+form.serialize();
Sample script for Form submit:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).readY(function(){
$("form#my_form").on("submit", function(event){
event.preventDefault();
var parameters = $(this).serialize();
window.location.href = "?a=" + parameters;
});
});
</script>
Modify the url as you wish.
So this was brought to my attention today, that our website search field does not work in chrome... I cannot click and enter text into the text field, nor click the search icon to initiate searching...
Sorry I do not know the specifics as to what is causing this, nor did I develop this. One of our developers who left quite some time ago did. I am now in charge of trying to figure this out.
FireFox and IE 11 seems to working fine.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
<div class="searchbox" id="searchbox">
<script type="text/javascript">
function RunSearch() {
window.location.href = "http://search.domain.com:8765/query.html?ql=&col=web1&qt=" + document.getElementById("search").value;
}
</script>
<div class="formSrchr">
<input type="text" size="20" name="qt" id="search" value="Search" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Search') {this.value=''}" onblur="if(this.value == ''){this.value ='Search'}" />
<input type="hidden" name="qlOld" id="qlOld" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="colOld" id="colOld" value="web1" />
<input type="image" name="imageField" alt="search" src="/_images/search-mag.gif" onclick="RunSearch();" />
</div>
</div> <!-- /searchbox -->
This is bad code and i suggest an entire re-write.. As for a quick fix..
You could try the following :
var searchTerm = document.getElementById("search").value;
location.assign("http://search.domain.com:8765/query.html?ql=&col=web1&qt=" + searchTerm );
Or
function RunSearch() {
window.location.href = "http://search.domain.com:8765/query.html?ql=&col=web1&qt=" + document.getElementById("search").value;
return false;
}
But dont use this.. re-write it!
My recommendation is to open the Developer tools in chrome and look at the Javascript debug window. That should tell you what's going on in the more general case. In either case, I recommend rewriting that snippet like this:
<div class="searchbox" id="searchbox">
<div class="formSrchr">
<form action="http://search.domain.com:8765/query.html" method="get">
<input type="text" size="20" name="qt" value="Search" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Search') {this.value=''}" onblur="if(this.value == ''){this.value ='Search'}" onmouseup="return false" />
<input type="hidden" name="ql" id="ql" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="col" id="col" value="web1" />
<input type="image" alt="search" src="/_images/search-mag.gif" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
The standard form element will behave the way it's supposed to without JavaScript. All the named inputs will be added as URL parameters just like it did before. That's what method="get" does. For most forms, the default method="post is best; however, for search you aren't really posting anything. There are some strange proxy servers that disable all HTTP POST calls to prevent people behind that proxy from accidentally sharing information they aren't supposed to. The method="get" allows those people to at least search your site.
NOTE: based on some searching around, Chrome needs you to disable the onmouseup event for focus and blur to work as expected. My HTML form above has that change in it already for you.
In HTML 5, you can simplify it even more by using the placeholder tag. It would look like this:
<input type="text" size="20" name="qt" placeholder="Search" value=""/>
That removes all the Javascript from your search form.
I want to have a box in HTML such as this one:
Particular thing, I need to do this using only HTML (no PHP or particular langage requiring server, or particular installation).
The reason for this is that it is meant to be used for HTML pages that will be opened from a USB key, not a website, and it has to be usable by any non-expert person. So no web-server configuration or installation required, such as what would be required for PHP, if I am right.
Think about not using a Form, but just using a Javascript function.
I'm not sure if this probably is not possible due to security reasons, but it could be a solution...
function redirect() {
var input = document.getElementById("stuff");
window.location = input.value;
}
<span>NOM:</span>
<input type="text" id="stuff"></input>
<br>
<input type="button" onclick="redirect()" value="Submit"></input>
I managed to do what I needed thanks to Anders Anderson's answer. Here is the code for those interested in doing similar thing. First, for the Javascript
function redirect() {
var answergiven = document.getElementById("answergiven");
var realanswer = document.getElementById("realanswer");
var nextpage = document.getElementById("nextpage");
if(answergiven.value.toLowerCase() == realanswer.value.toLowerCase()){
window.location = nextpage.value;
}
else{
alert('Wrong answer, please try again.');
}
return false; // prevent further bubbling of event
}
And for the HTML part, there are two hidden variables that determine the real answer, and the next page to go to, and the text field for the answer
<form name="myform" onSubmit="return redirect()">
<span>Réponse:</span>
<input type="text" id="answergiven" />
<input name="tosubmit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="hidden" id="realanswer" value="theanswer" />
<input type="hidden" id="nextpage" value="thenextpage.html" />
</form>
I'm trying to add a search box to my page that will direct users to the search result page on a different site. I have the action and all of the other required data in hidden fields, to ensure it's posting correctly.
The problem is that they tack on extra data to the search term, making it an advanced search type of field. So instead of being searchTerm=X, it's expecting searchTerm=Locale(en):FQE=(KE,None,11)MY_SEARCH_TERM:And:LQE=(AC,None,8)fulltext$
How can I add that extra data around my search term, without having to hit an intermediate page to do the concatenation?
Here's what I have so far:
<form action="http://vendors.address/searchresult.do" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="DateDescend">
<input type="text" name="queryId">
</form>
And I need something that can result in this type of thing:
<form action="http://vendors.address/searchresult.do" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="DateDescend">
<input type="hidden" name="queryId" value="Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C11%29MY_SEARCH_TERM_HERE%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28AC%2CNone%2C8%29fulltext%24">
</form>
Any help would be appreciated.
You could use Javascript to do this with a hidden search field. In jQuery, it would be something like:
$("input[name='queryId']").keyup(function() {
$("#hiddenField").val("Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C11%29" + $(this).val() + "%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28AC%2CNone%2C8%29fulltext%24");
});
But it would break with no JS.
Edit: Yea, beat to it, didn't refresh for the answers.
You can use JavaScript to do the concatenation before the form is submitted. There are a couple ways to do this but here is the recommended approach:
Since I don't see a submit button I'm assuming you counting your users to hit the enter key to submit the form so you will need to listen to the onSubmit event and concatenate the extra info before the post is sent to server.
Give the form element an id:
<form action="..." method="post" id="searchForm">
and give the text input field an id:
<input type="text" name="queryId" id="queryId">
Add this script block after the form
<script>
document.getElementById("searchForm").onSubmit = function(){
var queryField = document.getElementById("queryId");
queryField.value = "prepend_data" + queryField.value + "append_data";
return true;
}
</script>
Or of you can use JQuery (please do) you can drop this anywhere:
<script>
$(function(){
$("#searchForm")
.submit(
function(){
$("#queryId).val("prepend_data" + $(this).val() + "append_data");
}
);
});
</script>
Hope that helps
Two things I can think of:
1. Just put the locale and stuff in hidden inputs:
<input type="hidden" name="locale" value="en" />
2. Use javascript to submit the form (this is a horrible idea -- you don't want to make your site break if Javascript is turned off).