 Website search bar, need help with making a custom search bar. |
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| lukeowen |
 Apr 10 2015, 11:44 AM
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So I am making a website which supports html, the site is based on movie and tv show reviews.
I basically want a search bar where someone can type in a specific tag "movie title" or "show title" when they click search it will take them to a specific link for that search tag. can anyone help me with html I have coded a search bar that is clickable and that I can type in below. It would be good if there was a section where I can add new tags and the links where you will be redirected if you type in that specific tag. My current html: <html> <body> <div class+"search"> <form action="http://noobywalkthroughs.wix.com/tvlounge-1"> <input type="text" name="search" placeholder="Search a movie..."/> <input type="submit" value="Search"/> </form> </div> </body> </html> |
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| lukeowen |
Apr 10 2015, 11:55 AM
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HTML SEARCH BAR HELP!
Im making a site where a review the latest movies and tv shows. Because of the recent increase of webpage viewers im taking the site more serious, with this I have been improving the layout so that is looks more professional. Everything I have done is completely fine but I need help with the one issue of a search bar. I want to add a search bar so that someone can search a specific movie or tv show title (the titles will be in a html data list "something like that") after they click the search button they will be redirected to a new page on my site (the page dedicated to the specific film or tv show they search for). Im new to html but I have coded a basic search bar that is compatible and is exactly how I would like it to work. Html search bar code: <html> <body> <div class+"search"> <form action="http://noobywalkthroughs.wix.com/tvlounge-1"> <input type="text" name="search" placeholder="Search a movie..."/> <input type="submit" value="Search"/> </form> </div> </body> </html> (P.S if possible could someone code it so that there is a list of tags and redirection links so that when a new movie or show review comes out I can add them to the search tag and redirct list) - thanks |
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| pandy |
Apr 10 2015, 02:24 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟  Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
The form needs to be connected to a script on the server that does the actual search and you probably need a database. The URL to that script goes where you now have the URL to the page the form is in, as the value of the action attribute. Do you have such a script?
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| lukeowen |
Apr 10 2015, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Apr 10 2015, 02:24 PM)  The form need to be connected to a script on the server that does the actual search and you probably need a database. The URL to that script goes where you now have the URL to the page the form is in, as the value of the action attribute. Do you have such a script? not sure, i'm new to html only started today, the way im making my site is on a website maker but im using there html5 feature where you type up your html then add it to the page so im not to sure. |
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| Christian J |
Apr 10 2015, 02:59 PM
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There are also third-party search utilities (such as Freefind) that you can embed on a web page.
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| lukeowen |
Apr 10 2015, 03:43 PM
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QUOTE(Christian J @ Apr 10 2015, 02:59 PM) There are also third-party search utilities (such as Freefind) that you can embed on a web page. I am able to get the html from there site to mine and change a few things like colour but i'm not sure what i'm doing to get it to search my site and to add specific tags to search. |
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| pandy |
Apr 10 2015, 05:12 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
QUOTE(lukeowen @ Apr 10 2015, 09:30 PM) not sure, i'm new to html only started today Well, this isn't HTML. It's programming and could be done in any server side programming language. If you can find a service that does the job for you, as Christian suggested, you are out of that jam. But you seem to have some requisites that makes it a little more than an ordinary site search. |
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| lukeowen |
Apr 11 2015, 08:36 AM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Apr 10 2015, 05:12 PM) QUOTE(lukeowen @ Apr 10 2015, 09:30 PM) not sure, i'm new to html only started today Well, this isn't HTML. It's programming and could be done in any server side programming language. If you can find a service that does the job for you, as Christian suggested, you are out of that jam. But you seem to have some requisites that makes it a little more than an ordinary site search. I have seen it on lots of other sites it basically you search a word if it is a vlid word in the system it takes you to a page if that page sosin't exist it can tage them to another page saying that that page dosn't exist |
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| pandy |
Apr 11 2015, 08:58 AM
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Sure. But those sites don't do it with HTML either.
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