Feedback on: Searching
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I'm using the jscript code in your searching article to create a keyword search feature for HTML based online help. I modified the code to have fewer fields and eliminated the check boxes. I changed it to only search one of the fields. Then I added a variable to tell me if there were any matches and another output function so that if there aren't any matches I can tell the user that there were no matches. I've run into one problem. With one set of "setArticle" lines in search.htm, it works fine. With another set, it doesn't find any matches. I cannot see any difference in my syntax between the two. Making the list shorter or longer doesn't seem to make a difference. Any ideas on what might be causing the second array to choke?
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Very worth reading
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Just right
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Just right
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I am playing with javascript to read a basic database, so far yours has done the BEST! Thank you, I do though have one question. Well a hurdle I cant quite get over... is it possible to have the "search feature" as a pull down menu of pre-defined data? Either instead of , or in conjuction with the search field? If possible, please let me know, I have looked through other items you wrote about pull down menus , but couldnt get them to work , probably because of vaiables, but if something short, I could replace the tools.htm with that would handle option values , as in a pull down menu, that would be GREAT! Thanks again and I keep working on it!