Quick Find Not Working Properly

[-RJM-]

Hi There,

 

I have a few contribs SPPC and STS installed. The quick find box will not accept any text whatsoever. When I click on the advanced search link the page comes up normally and the search works from there. When I am on the advanced search page, I am able to type into the quick find box on the left.

 

I have searched most of the forums and can't find anything about this. Any ideas?

 

Thanks

[Jan Zonjee]

The quick find box will not accept any text whatsoever.

You probably mean that whatever you type doesn't give a search result. Is the "action" of the form (see the page source) OK:

<form name="quick_find" action="http://your_site/perhaps_a_directory/advanced_search_result.php" method="get">

[-RJM-]

Hi There,

 

The action of the form is OK. I am not able to type any text into the quick find box unless the advanced search page is displayed. If any other page is displayed, ie. index, product, specials, etc the quick find box will not accept any text at all.

[Jan Zonjee]

I am not able to type any text into the quick find box unless the advanced search page is displayed. If any other page is displayed, ie. index, product, specials, etc the quick find box will not accept any text at all.

That's a first I read about that. Must be a HTML thing on the input field.

[-RJM-]

I have managed to track this down to a problem with Firefox. In IE it is working normally. No idea where to go from here.

[Jan Zonjee]

I have managed to track this down to a problem with Firefox. In IE it is working normally. No idea where to go from here.

If you don't want to link to the site itself it might be an idea to post the HTML of the area (plus a little above and below it). Perhaps it will jump out to somebody here.

[-RJM-]

I have not enabled the search on the live site. I am only working on this locally at the moment. I should upload the changes and then I can link to the site. Here is the HTML from the page source displaying the searchbox.

 

<!-- start searchbox //-->
<table width="100%" border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#999999" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
 <tr>
   <td><table width="100%" border="0">
     <tr>

       <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
   <td width="100%" class="infoBoxHeading">Quick Find</td>
 </tr>
</table>
</td>
       <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>

       <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" class="infoBoxContents">
 <tr>
   <td><img src="images/pixel_trans.gif" border="0" alt="" width="100%" height="1"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td align="center" class="boxText"><form name="quick_find" action="http://localhost/catalog/advanced_search_result.php" method="get"><input type="text" name="keywords" size="10" maxlength="30" style="width: 95px"> <input type="hidden" name="osCsid" value="9244d77c647e517b0cba774b82cc4959"><input type="image" src="includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_quick_find.gif" border="0" alt="Quick Find" title=" Quick Find "><br>Use keywords to find the product you are looking for.<br><a href="http://localhost/catalog/advanced_search.php?osCsid=9244d77c647e517b0cba774b82cc4959"><b>Advanced Search</b></a></form></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>

   <td><img src="images/pixel_trans.gif" border="0" alt="" width="100%" height="1"></td>
 </tr>
</table>
</td>
       <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> </td>
     </tr>
   </table></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<!-- end searchbox //-->

[Jan Zonjee]

Here is the HTML from the page source displaying the searchbox.

Looks fine to me. Perhaps save the HTML of that page and run it through a validator like the one from W3C by uploading it?

Perhaps a form tag was left open above it?

[-RJM-]

Thanks very much. I will take a look at that and see if I can find anything.