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Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:27 pm
by moorezilla
Someone asked me to make the search box automatically erase the prepopulated text when someone clicks into it. I couldn't figure out how to do it with the existing module tags, so I added the following hack to action.default.php
On line 28 of action.default.php I added:
$dis = "onfocus=\"if(this.value==this.defaultValue) this.value='';\"";
and to line 33 I added the variable $dis to the end:
$this->smarty->assign('inputbox', $this->CreateInputText($id, 'searchinput', $searchtext, 20, 50, $dis));
This probably isn't the best way to do it, but it worked for me, so I'm passing it along. If anyone has a better way, please let me know. Otherwise, if you need it, enjoy.
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:05 pm
by cyberman
Like this one - will be my default for future
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Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:27 pm
by moorezilla
Maybe this could be rolled into the Search module as a default action?
I can't think of any situations where one wouldn't want the search text box to operate this way.
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:17 pm
by british.assassin
nice one, thanks .... i was trying to figure out how to do this myself
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:16 pm
by moorezilla
No problem, Bond. No problem.
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:46 pm
by liquid
Wonderful, thank you!
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:50 pm
by tsw
create new feature request in forge
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:42 am
by askme
I am new to CMSMadeSimple..
But where is this file action.default.php is located? Which folder, subfolder of CMSmadeSimple
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:43 pm
by webform
moorezilla wrote:
On line 28 of action.default.php I added:
$dis = "onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue) this.value='';"";
To extend it a little so it falls back to default if the user leave the searchbox without searching:
$dis = "onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue) this.value='';""." onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value=this.defaultValue;"";
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:14 pm
by Elijah Lofgren
I think I'll try getting this into the core.
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:25 pm
by moorezilla
Nice.
If you use a variable, my Rhodesian Ridgeback insists that you use "hogan" in his honor.
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:02 am
by Elijah Lofgren
Applied:
http://viewsvn.cmsmadesimple.org/viewsv ... w=rev
moorezilla wrote:
Nice.
If you use a variable, my Rhodesian Ridgeback insists that you use "hogan" in his honor.
Done
Thanks for the patch!!! 
All future CMSMS versions should include this.
Thanks again,
Elijah
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:38 am
by moorezilla
Nice! Very Nice!
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:27 pm
by fiddle
Is this only for the search module.? Can it work on pisearch, there is no such file under the pisearch module folder. thanks
Re: Automatically erasing search box text
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:08 pm
by Elijah Lofgren
fiddle wrote:
Is this only for the search module.? Can it work on pisearch, there is no such file under the pisearch module folder. thanks
It's even easier on Pisearch.
1. Go to Content -> Pisearch
2. In the Form template
Replace this line:
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<input type="text" value="" maxlength="50" size="15" name="pisearch" id="searching" />
with this:
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<input type="text" value="Search Text..." maxlength="50" size="15" name="pisearch" id="searching" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue) this.value='';" />
Hope this helps,
Elijah