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7 years 6 months ago #143088 by jpwiega
JS to open link in new tab inserts limesurvey hosting directory before the link was created by jpwiega
Hi,

I'm trying to include the following JS in my survey to produce a search button that takes text input and inserts it at the end of a URL that is opened in a new browser tab. However, it appears that any clickable links (even a basic HTML link) insert my limesurvey hosting url and directory before the linked URL (so nothing happens).

Can you please help me get the links to simply open as written?
Code:
<div id="tfheader">
        <form id="tfnewsearch" method="get" action="http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s=">
            <input type="text" placeholder="Enter Your Job Title..." class="tftextinput" id="tftextinput" name="q" size="26" maxlength="120"><input type="submit" value="Search O*NET Occupations" class="tfbutton">
        </form>
        <div class="tfclear"></div>
        </div>
        <script>
            var a = document.getElementById('tfnewsearch');
            a.addEventListener('submit',function(e) {
                e.preventDefault();
                var b = document.getElementById('tftextinput').value;
                window.open('http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s='+b)
            });
        </script>
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7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #143101 by urbana
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The problem is the submit button - it seems that submit buttons are reserved and used by different limesurvey functions
I recommend two things:
1. get red rid of the form tag - you don't need it - also the action item is useless in your case
2. change type submit to button

And you use the same class name and id name for the input field thats not good eigther
id tags should always be unique
then you should get it to run
Last edit: 7 years 6 months ago by urbana. Reason: id tag
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7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #143141 by jpwiega
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First, to ensure we're on the same page, allow me to demonstrate a working example of the JS hosted on my website here. A respondent is able to enter a job title, click the button, and is taken to www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s with the text of their search inserted at the end of the full onetonline.org url.

I attempted your edits to the best of my ability, but need to retain the form tag at some level in order to offer a text entry field. Below is what I've arrived at, but it still is not working. In light of the working example linked above, what am I still missing? Apologies for generally lacking html/JS expertise. Thanks for the help.
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<form id="tfnewsearch" method="get"><input class="tftext" id="tftextinput" maxlength="120" name="q" placeholder="Enter Your Job Title..." size="26" type="text" /><input class="tfbutton" type="submit" value="Search O*NET Occupations" /> </form>
<script>
    var a = document.getElementById('tfnewsearch');
    a.addEventListener('submit',function(e) {
      e.preventDefault();
      var b = document.getElementById('tftextinput').value;
    window.open("http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s="+b)
    });
</script>
Last edit: 7 years 6 months ago by jpwiega.
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7 years 6 months ago #143143 by tpartner
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You don't need a <form> element unless you want to want to act on it. And, technically, you already have one - the LS form.

Something like this should do the trick:

Code:
<div class="search-wrapper" style="background:#FFFFFF; padding: 20px; margin: 20px; color: #2C3E50;">
  <input class="tftext" id="tftextinput" maxlength="120" placeholder="Enter Your Job Title..." size="26" type="text" style="border:1px solid #233140;" />
  <button id="tfbutton" type="button" value="Search O*NET Occupations" style="margin-left:8px;" />Search O*NET Occupations</button> 
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">    
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $('#tfbutton').on('click', function(e) {
      e.preventDefault();
      var b = $('#tftextinput').val();
      window.open("http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s="+b)
    });
  });
</script>
Cheers,
Tony Partner
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7 years 6 months ago #143144 by urbana
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OK I see you'r lack of the fundamentals no prob
First you don't need a form to show form elements
Here is a working code (at least in the current LS Version) based on jQuery

Paste that in the question or helptext:
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<input class="tftextinput" id="tftextinput2" maxlength="120" name="q" placeholder="Enter Your Job Title..." size="26" type="text" /><input class="tfbutton" id="tfnewsearch" type="button" value="Search O*NET Occupations" /> 
<div class="tfclear"> </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("body #tfnewsearch").on("click",function(){
  var b = $("#tftextinput2").val();
  window.open("http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s="+b)
});
        </script>
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7 years 6 months ago #143146 by tpartner
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@urbana, beat you by 3 minutes :P
Cheers,
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7 years 6 months ago #143148 by urbana
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:laugh: :laugh:
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7 years 6 months ago #143157 by jpwiega
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Many thanks to both of you--these solutions work well. l'm using them with the "Text Display" type question.

One follow-up: is it possible to use "enter" to execute the search function after a respondent places text in the box? I realize tabbing over to the button and then hitting "enter" accomplishes this, but I'm afraid most respondents won't think to do that and may hit enter instead of tabbing over to or clicking the search button. Presently this simply moves the survey to the next page.
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7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #143171 by tpartner
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One follow-up: is it possible to use "enter" to execute the search function after a respondent places text in the box?

No, because you're in the LimeSurvey form, "Enter" will submit that.
Cheers,
Tony Partner
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