That looks excellent, just the job - I'll try it later on when I get time.
On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:31:15 AM UTC, Tobias Beer wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> as Kev was asking here [1] how to embed some fancy google code to embed a
> custom search, I went a different road. Hopefully, achieving the same
> desired outcome.
>
> So, here's what I did: Allow the user input his search term(s) and open a
> new window with the constructed search URL.
>
> So, in order to get any desired number of custom google search boxes
> working in a TiddlyWiki, here's what you do:
>
> A) Create a tiddler, perhaps called *[[Google Search]],* containing:
> <html>
> <span class="g-search">
> <input class="g-search-input" type="text" id="$1"/>
> <input class="g-search-button" type="button" value="search"
> onclick="javascript:
> var el = document.getElementById('$1');
> window.open('http://www.google.com/cse?cx=$1&q='+el.value, '_blank');
> window.focus();
> "/>
> </span>
> </html>
>
> B) Now you can embed your desired search box in any tiddler using
> transclusion:
> <<tiddler "Google Search" with: "YourCustom:SearchId">>
>
> So, what is going on here?
>
> For one, the *[[Google Search]]* tiddler is plain html with a button
> having an onclick handler, so it does something when you click it. In this
> case, open a new window in order to perform a custom google search.
>
> When TiddlyWiki outputs the *[[Google Search]]* tiddler - when it renders
> the tiddler where you have embedded it - it substitutes every occurence of
> $1 in the html snippet with whatever you passed as the first parameter to
> the <<tiddler>> macro. Likewise it would substitute any $2 with a second
> parameter, if there was any.
>
> Finally, if you want the thing to look pretty, you can make use of the css
> classes in your StyleSheet tiddler.
>
> Cheers, Tobias.
>
>
> [1]
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tiddlywiki/badQG8RBGMM
>
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