Making a drop down box to search

[Guest_imported]

I have three favorite search engines that I like. How can I make a drop down box that I can use to search either of the three?

 

[jaredn]

something like this should work, if I understand your ? properly:

<select onChange=&quot;window.location=this.value&quot;>
<option value=&quot;

http://www.altavista.com&quot;>Altavista

<option value=&quot;

http://www.yahoo.com&quot;>Yahoo

</select> jared@aauser.com

 

[Guest_imported]

OK, That worked great! Thanks, but I have one more question. How can I make a box, so that I can type in the search criteria in, than I select the search engine that I want, then I click a search button, and it will search based on what I typed in.

 

[jaredn]

each search engine has its own way of handling this, but for altavista it looks something like this:

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=dogs+and+cats&amp;kl=XX&amp;pg=q&amp;Translate=on

so just go to each one, and search, and see the string they make for the adress, then make the address yourself using code instead jared@aauser.com

 

[Guest_imported]

OK, last question. I'm not very smart. How would I use that code to make it look like a search box on my web page? Like each time I go there, I want to type in a different search each time. Like Altavista for example.

 

[jaredn]

this works in IE, NS4.X, and NS6:

<script>

function findIt()
{
var criteria,engine,search,frm;
frm = document.benlucbenluc
criteria = frm.benlucben.value;
engine = frm.benluc.options[frm.benluc.selectedIndex].value;
switch(engine)
{
case '1':
search=&quot;

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/qu...ot;&amp;kl=XX&amp;pg=q&amp;Translate=on&quot;

break;
case '2':
search=&quot;

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=&quot;+window.escape(criteria)

break;
case '3':
search=&quot;

http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=&quot;+window.escape(criteria)

}
window.location=search
}
</script>

<form action=&quot;javascript:findIt()&quot; name=&quot;benlucbenluc&quot;>
Search for:&amp;nbsp;<input name=&quot;benlucben&quot;>&amp;nbsp;with
<select name=&quot;benluc&quot;>
<option value=&quot;1&quot;>Altavista
<option value=&quot;2&quot;>Yahoo
<option value=&quot;3&quot;>Web Crawler
</select>
<script>
if(document.all){document.write('<input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot;>')}
else{document.write('<input type=&quot;button&quot; onClick=&quot;findIt()&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot;>')}
</script> jared@aauser.com

 

[jaredn]

Oh yeah, please ask programming questions for client-side programming in the javascript or vbscript forum. ) jared@aauser.com