Forms and hashes

JavaScript
21

Nah, i’m running it after the form which is also at the very bottom >_>

i’d paste that code but it’s a mess at the moment because I just condensed 3 different modules into one.

22

Well for the sake of reference, here is a simple test page that demonstrates the technique working fine.


<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#searchForm {
    text-align: center;
}
.searchfield {
    width: 280px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="searchForm">
    <form id="search" action="http://www.google.com/search"> 
        <input type="submit" value="Search" class="searchbutton"> 
        <input id="searchtext" name="q" class="searchfield">
    </form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var form = document.getElementById('search');
form.onsubmit = function () {
    var form = this,
        domain = form.action.match(/^(http:\\/\\/[a-zA-Z.]+)/)[1],
        searchtext = form.elements.q.value;
    location.href = domain + '#q=' + searchtext;
    return false;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
23

phew finally got it working, thanks for everyone’s help!

the issue with your solution paul turned out to be that my processing script was expectin ‘Search’ and not ‘search’ on a linux server. whoops! i didn’t even mean to use any capitals in the first place