<iframe> search problem

**sgie23** · 12-21-2007, 10:04 PM

Hi all,
I was trying to make a working demo of an iframe that would display a search query that is input from an independent page

http://testpad.50webs.com

but on the results page, the searchbox automatically displays a "?" quetionmark before the word and if you keep clicking the "Submit Query" button, it keeps adding "q=%3F" along with the word

also, if you search two words, like "hello world" it inserts a "?" question mark and "%20" in the searchbox..

how do I get rid of the "?" marks and other characters appearing in the textbox??

many thanks..

**jscheuer1** · 12-21-2007, 11:38 PM

Your first page is acceptable, it might be able to be changed to make things less complex on the second page, I'm not sure. The results.htm should look like so:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
		<title>New Document</title>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			function init()
			{
				document.getElementById("googleFrame").src = "http://google.com/search?q=" + unescape(window.location.search.replace(/^\?/,''));
				document.getElementById("q").value = unescape(window.location.search.substring(1));
			}

			window.onload = init;
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<form action="http://google.com/search" target="googleFrame">
			Search : <input id="q" name="q"><input type="submit"><br>
		</form>
		<iframe name="googleFrame" id="googleFrame" height=500 width=800></iframe><br />
	</body>
</html>

**sgie23** · 12-21-2007, 11:42 PM

Brilliant!
works like a charm..

thanks a lot!

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