I am making a website for the Philosophy Club at my school, and I wanted to add a search box for the library there. I still haven't gotten permission from the libraries to add it, so it might end-up pointless anyways, but I was hoping you could help me with something.

I don't actually know javascript, so I made this by adapting someone elses'. The thing works, but whenever there are any search boxes that come before it in the HTML then it stops working. And that is really weird, and I am assuming means that I botched something up (even though it works find as long as the entry field is at the top. What needs to change here?

EDIT: It explodes when I try to post it, so instead I am attaching a screen shot.

Thanks for all the help guys!

This post has been edited by Karl: May 31 2008, 09:56 PM

Reason is the way you are accessing the form.

document.forms[0].librequest.value will access the first form in the document. Obviously, when there is a form somewhere before yours, it will not be able to find the librequest input in that form.

My suggestion would be to access the form input by id so it doesn't matter where on the page it appears...



Hope that helps.

Sorry it took me so long to thank you! My e-mail account was hacked and I was framed for hacking someone elses' e-mail and I just had a lot going on.

But thank you very much for posting this. It works perfectly now! You are like an angel, man! q: