Hello, I'm trying to make a simple search with Javascript to search a form, I need to pull the index of my search term. This is what I have so far, but I'm seriously having issues. Any help is appreciated.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Search Form</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type=text/javascript>
function search(sub, string) {
var where=str.indexOf(toSearch);
alert(where);
if(where =="") ||(where == null))
{
alert("The string was not found");
}
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h3>CIW JavaScript Specialist</h3>
<hr />
<form name="myForm">
<p>
<strong>Look for:</strong>
<input type="text" name="what" size="20" />
</p>
<p>
<strong>in this string:</strong>
<textarea name="toSearch" rows="4" cols="30" wrap="virtual">
<body>
<h3>CIW JavaScript Specialist</h3>
<hr />
<form name="myForm">
<p>
<strong>Look for:</strong>
<input type="text" name="what" size="20" />
</p>
<p>
<strong>in this string:</strong>
<textarea name="toSearch" rows="4" cols="30" wrap="virtual">
</textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="button" value="Search" onclick="search(myForm.what.value, myForm.toSearch.value);" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
