Dumb Post of the Day - Where Have I Gone Wrong?

This is quite possibly an idiotic post, with the answer to my question right
under my nose. However, I have looked and cannot figure out what I've done
wrong (admittedly, I know little about these particular things), so I seek YOUR
help:

Please go to http://www.mcaronline.com

See the search button in the upper right? The search feature works if you hit
the "Enter" key on your keyboard, but the button does not work if you click it.

Why is that and how do I fix it?

Make sure the action for your button is submit and that it is within the same form as the textfield it's a simple small mistake to make and could be the problem.

I think it's because your submit button is outside the form.

<form method="get" action="http://search.atomz.com/search/">
<input name="sp-q" size="15" maxlength="25">
<input type="hidden" name="sp-a" value="sp10027d50">
<input type="hidden" name="sp-p" value="all">
<input type="hidden" name="sp-f" value="ISO-8859-1">
</form>
</td>
<td width="71" align="right">

and here is your submit button... out side the form.

<input name="submit" type="image" value="Search"
src="images/search_bt.gif" alt="Search" align="middle" width="65"
height="27" border="0">
</td></tr>

HTH
Kim

stephen_t wrote:

This is quite possibly an idiotic post, with the answer to my question right
under my nose. However, I have looked and cannot figure out what I've done
wrong (admittedly, I know little about these particular things), so I seek YOUR
help:

Please go to http://www.mcaronline.com

See the search button in the upper right? The search feature works if you hit
the "Enter" key on your keyboard, but the button does not work if you click it.

Why is that and how do I fix it?

Well, that really seems like the culprit. But here's a bit of a curveball:

I placed the "search" button in a separate cell in order to make the form
field and the button align properly horizontally. I couldn't have these two
elements in the same cell; one or the other always wants to be on top. I could
NOT get them aligned like I have them now.

So, how do I sneak the submit action and/or search button into the form? I
tried moving the "</form>" tag AFTER the cell that contains the search button,
but that didn't work. Tried a few other things, as well (playing around with
table arrangement, etc.). No luck.

Any ideas?

Hi stephen,

You could use a nested table something like this:

<form method="get" action="http://search.atomz.com/search/">
<table width="141px" border="0">
<tr><td><input name="sp-q" size="10" maxlength="25"></td>
<td><input name="submit" type="image" value="Search"
src="images/search_bt.gif" alt="Search" align="middle" width="65"
height="27" border="0"></td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="sp-a" value="sp10027d50">
<input type="hidden" name="sp-p" value="all">
<input type="hidden" name="sp-f" value="ISO-8859-1">
</form></td>
<td width="30" align="right">&nbsp;
</td>

I also changed the max width from 15 to 10...

Kim

stephen_t wrote:

Well, that really seems like the culprit. But here's a bit of a curveball:

I placed the "search" button in a separate cell in order to make the form
field and the button align properly horizontally. I couldn't have these two
elements in the same cell; one or the other always wants to be on top. I could
NOT get them aligned like I have them now.

So, how do I sneak the submit action and/or search button into the form? I
tried moving the "</form>" tag AFTER the cell that contains the search button,
but that didn't work. Tried a few other things, as well (playing around with
table arrangement, etc.). No luck.

Any ideas?