Thanks for all of your help so far. Instead of delving further down that road, is it just easier to tell the search form to display the results into a new page? Where is the function/code for that?
Thanks again for being so helpful! On Aug 7, 6:42 pm, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are ways to do this with a bit of hackery but what may be the > best solution and provide the most flexibility for you would be to > just create your own controls using the JSONP aspects of the API. > > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje > > If you need help with it I have done enough apps with it I can > probably help you out with what you need. > > On Aug 7, 2:15 pm, George <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, thank you very much for the response. > > However, I think the roadblock, is how to have this same code be > > placed in the <body> of the document. > > > I have a master page that calls various other included pages/blocks of > > HTML/etc. > > I want to have this google search code inside one of the includes, so > > it will be rendered in the body of the page. > > Is there anyway to still do this in this manner? > > > Also, the search results area needs to be styled differently than the > > search form area, and overlay all of the other content on the page > > when it is shown. (Sorry for being so unclear the first post...) > > So, the search results area is hidden when the user first brings up > > the page. > > But when a search is conducted, I put the results in the search > > results area, and show it via javascript. > > > If you look at my original code it does all of this, but it has the > > problem of not being able to hide and show the search results area > > until I'm ready. > > > On Aug 7, 12:18 am, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Try this > > > >http://savedbythegoog.appspot.com/?id=ag5zYXZlZGJ5dGhlZ29vZ3ISCxIJU2F... > > > > See if that does what you want. > > > > Cheers! > > > Vision Jinx > > > > On Aug 6, 2:56 pm, George <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Okay, another newbie here. I just need a push in the right direction. > > > > I've searched the group and examples and documentation, but there's > > > > obviously still some holes in my understanding. > > > > > What I want to do is this: > > > > - have a search box on the home page of our school's website > > > > - be able to style the search box and search button to match the > > > > already designed style > > > > - when the user enters data into the search box and clicks the > > > > "Search" button, have the results only search pages in our domain > > > > > What I have done: > > > > - created a custom search for our domain > > > > - monkeyed around with the following > > > > code...http://paste-it.net/public/e14f0fb/ > > > > > (I pasted it using the service suggested in the Posting Guidelines...) > > > > > In the code, I'm trying to create the new search box, make sure the > > > > results are displayed in the 'searchResults' div (which is initially > > > > hidden in the stylesheet), and then have the searchResults div appear > > > > when a user conducts a search. > > > > > I don't need the search to execute when the page is first loaded, > > > > because the search box just sits in the top right of all my pages. So, > > > > I need to keep the searchResults div hidden until someone actually > > > > executes a search. > > > > > What appears to be happening is when the page is first loaded, the > > > > searchResults div is already visible, so I must need to break out the > > > > code a bit more. > > > > > Couple more questions: > > > > 1) How do I NOT show the tabs view if I am using the Custom Search? > > > > (It displays one tab that is the name of my Custom Search Engine.) > > > > > 2) How do I NOT get the results to open in new page? (The anchor tags > > > > have a target="_blank" on them.) > > > > > Thank you for any and all insight! > > > > - George --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
