Troubles in SearchLand

[digitalflow]

Ok so my site layout is perfect and I am adding of all my content and everything is going fine...but THEN. (I knew you all were waiting for the big BUT)
I have two tables right next to each other and one contains a form with a text box the other contains the graphic I want users to click to utilize the search. The question is...how do I go about making the graphic work when I CANNOT (TRIED NOT POSSIBLE UNLESS I REDESIGN MY SITE COMPLETELY) have the graphic included in the same form? Its been driving me nuts for a while now and I really need some closure on this. Also do you know of any good extremely search javascripts to use? At this point I just want something simple. Thanks in advance!

[Poop_Shoot]

I dont know about anyone else but I am confused! Could you give us a link or example code maybe! Maybe you could elaborate just a little more on the subject about the graphics! As for the search what is the search going to do?

Jon

[kgish]

Actually, there are two ways to accomplishing this.

First of all, for DOM-compliant browsers you might consider the following:

<form ... id="form1">
...
</form>
<img ... onclick="document.getElementById('form1').submit()">

For the other browsers, consider this:

<form ... name="form1">
</form>
<img ... onclick="document.form1.submit()">

Or a more elegant solution would be to use an intervening submit function to take care of this browser "sniffing" for you:

<form ... id="form1" name="form1">
</form>
<img src="" onclick="handleSubmit('form1')">

Where the function to handle the submit event looks something like this:

function handleSubmit(frm) {
  if (document.getElementById) {
	document.getElementById(frm).submit();
  } else {
	document.frm.submit();
  }
}

Hope this helps!