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Search Engine

Use this tutorial to add your very own search engine to your site! However, it will only search for words on the same page, so it can be quite limited.

1. Put the following code into your HEAD section of your page (see my 'Page Tags' tutorial if you don't know what that is):

var NS4 = (document.layers);    // Which browser?
var IE4 = (document.all);

var win = window;    // window to search.
var n   = 0;

function findInPage(str) {

var txt, i, found;

if (str == "")
    return false;

// Find next occurance of the given string on the page, wrap around to the
  // start of the page if necessary.

if (NS4) {

// Look for match starting at the current point. If not found, rewind
    // back to the first match.

if (!win.find(str))
      while(win.find(str, false, true))
        n++;
    else
      n++;

// If not found in either direction, give message.

if (n == 0)
      alert("Not found.");
  }

if (IE4) {
    txt = win.document.body.createTextRange();

// Find the nth match from the top of the page.

for (i = 0; i <= n && (found = txt.findText(str)) != false; i++) {
      txt.moveStart("character", 1);
      txt.moveEnd("textedit");
    }

// If found, mark it and scroll it into view.

if (found) {
      txt.moveStart("character", -1);
      txt.findText(str);
      txt.select();
      txt.scrollIntoView();
      n++;
    }

// Otherwise, start over at the top of the page and find first match.

else {
      if (n > 0) {
        n = 0;
        findInPage(str);
      }

// Not found anywhere, give message.

else
        alert("Sorry, not found :(");
    }
  }

return false;
}

</script>

2. Then add this code where you want the search engine to appear:

3. Save the page and that's all there is to it! Here's mine:

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