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Wikipedia Search Box. Javascript and HTML to make it quicker to search Wikipedia. Also searches Google.
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To use the search box above in your page copy the HTML in the textarea below and paste it into your page.
Hitting Enter will start a Google search for what is in the search box.
All searches should open in a new browser window.
<SCRIPT> document.captureEvents(Event.KEYPRESS); document.onkeypress = keyHandler function srch(engine,what) { var wiki, google, url google="http://www.google.com/search" wiki="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search" text=document.searchForm.q.value if(engine=="google") { text=escape(text) url=google + '?num=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=' +text+ '&btnG=Search' } else if(engine=='wiki') { if(what=="go") { url=wiki + '?search=' +escape(text)+ '&go=Go' } else if(what=="search") { url=wiki + '?search=' +escape(text)+ '&fulltext=Search' } } window.open(url) return} function keyHandler(evt) { // On Enter do a google search in a new window // return false means don't pass the keypress the Master window, otherwise do. var google, text, url if(evt.which==13) { // Enter key pressed google="http://www.google.com/search" text=document.searchForm.q.value text=escape(text) url=google + '?num=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=' +text+ '&btnG=Search' window.open(url) return false } return} </SCRIPT> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="1"> <TR><TD BGCOLOR="skyblue"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="1"> <TR> <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" name="searchForm"> <TD ROWSPAN="4" BGCOLOR="lavender" VALIGN="MIDDLE"> <input type="hidden" name="num" value="30"> <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"> <input type="hidden" name="safe" value="off"> <input maxlength="2048" size="30" name="q" value="" title="Google Search" style="font-family: courier new; font-size:10pt"> <input type="hidden" name="btnG" value="Search"></TD></form> <TD BGCOLOR="lavender"> <A HREF="javascript:void(0)" onClick="srch('wiki','go');return false"> <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE="1" COLOR="blue">Go Wikipedia</FONT></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD BGCOLOR="lavender"> <A HREF="javascript:void(0)" onClick="srch('wiki','search')"> <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE="1" COLOR="blue">Search Wikipedia</FONT></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD BGCOLOR="lavender"> <A HREF="javascript:void(0)" onClick="srch('google')"> <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE="1" COLOR="blue">Search Google</FONT></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD BGCOLOR="lavender"> <A HREF="javascript:void(0)" onClick="srch('google')"> <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial" SIZE="1" COLOR="black">(or press Enter)</FONT></A></TD> </TR> </TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE>
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