Creating your own search bar

[mcoliver88]

Hi All
This has probally been asked a thousnad times, but here it goes.
I have built a search bar into my website, and i want the user the be able to enter any text and be able to search google in a new window/tab. This is the code i have so far:

<div id="search">
                <form method="get" target="_new"  action="https://www.google.com/search?q"+document>
                    <input type="text" id="searchtxt" />
                    <input type="submit" name="q" id="searchbtn"/>
                </form>
            </div>

The issue i am having is when i type say "test" into the search box and clikc search, i go to google but the word it has searched is submit.

Any help would be great
Thanks

[minitauros]

Move the name parameter to the input with type="text", then it should probably work!

<input type="text" name="q"id="searchtxt" />
<input type="submit" id="searchbtn"/>

[JorgeM]

Just to provide you with an additional option that you may have not considered, google has a product called CSE (custom search engine) that you can use to integrate a search feature in your site. If you want to see how it works, use the search feature on DaniWeb. I use it as well on sites that i work on.

https://www.google.com/cse/

[mikerock]

https://www.google.com/cse/tools/create_onthefly, Try this link, Hopefully this will gives your better idea for creating customize search bar for your website or blogs.