Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has a tutorial or the code of how this forum, and other forums/sites, have the "Search this forum" button that you click and the form pops up nicely.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks .

Uhhhhh -- have you ever had the 1st thought of placing your mouse over the link; right-click; and select properties???

Don't bother answering me -- you already did with your post...

Originally Posted by travelagent

Uhhhhh -- have you ever had the 1st thought of placing your mouse over the link; right-click; and select properties???

OK call me dumb, but what does that achieve?

Originally Posted by travelagent

Uhhhhh -- have you ever had the 1st thought of placing your mouse over the link; right-click; and select properties???

Don't bother answering me -- you already did with your post...

Umm, yea... that helps a lot, thanks

Does anyone else have any real advice?

Google it ?? C'mon.. it's a link and the function is controlled via PHP - THAT is what a right-click and 'properties' will show you-- that or VIEW SOURCE.

You were answered but it was a little sharp.

The button is nothing but an image file that is hyper-linked to the search form. There is no magic button so to speak.

The form is a coded script that queries the database and does all the work.

Edit: not you Lady. You snuck that reply in while I was typing.

I think he understands how the form works. I think he is more interested in the pop up part of it.

Google it ?? C'mon.. it's a link and the function is controlled via PHP - THAT is what a right-click and 'properties' will show you-- that or VIEW SOURCE.]

Maybe he doesn't know what to search for? Give him a hint rather than a snappy comment. Right click and view source won't show all to someone who doesn't know.

Lets be honest here. The snappy know it all replies in this forum get old after awhile...

Andrew, there's some scripts over at dynamicdrive.com that would probably do the trick for you. Have a look at some of the on-click menu's they have.

Instead of placing a menu there, you'd put your searchbox form in there. If you're going to use something like the ones from dynamicdrive, be aware that they won't function if the visitor has JS disabled in their browser.

To get around this, simply add a <noscript> tag under the JS, and inside the <noscript> tags, add a text-based search form for your visitors that have JS disabled.

Hope this helps.

CSS and Dynamic content Bru... Can u perhaps give me a screenshot of how this button looks.. Cuz i dont understand ur Question