[WEB4LIB] Help with Site Search Page in Front Page

[Bert Coenen]

your reset button does work, ie, it does exactly what it's supposed to do, it 
resets the form fields to their initial state, which, in this case, is not 
blank.
in the results page, your search engine script automatically fills out the 
keyword form field, hence the initial state of the field is not blank but the 
keyword(s) that was/were used to do the search. 
I can see two solutions:
1. modify the search engine script (could be really tricky, what do you mean 
by "generated by Front Page", how does FP search?)
2. asign a javascript-action to the button that will clear the contents of 
your form field (check out any major javascript-source-library-site-thingy for 
examples)

bert

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On Tue Mar 12 17:18:51 2002,
"Gardner, Thomas" <tgardner at MCL.org> wrote:
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>If you would, please take a look at our site search page
><http://www.mcl.org/ssearch.html> not yet linked up because of the
>following problem:
>
>The reset button works fine *before* you do the search, but in the
>results page generated by Front Page after the search - over which I
>have no control - you search terms remain in the text box and the search
>and reset buttons are still there, but the latter button doesn't work.
>It's just there, mocking the user, seemingly proffering the solace of a
>new start, a clean slate, a fresh beginning ...
>
>.. only to snatch it away.
>
>Any suggesttion on how to fix this?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>--
>Tom Gardner
>Senior Librarian/Webmaster
>Mercer County Library System
>2751 Brunswick Pike
>Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
>tgardner at mcl.org
>
>
>

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