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JavaScript

Posted by Tracy Excell
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Tracy Excell
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,333 Points

Name of javascript course that teaches you how to connect a search bar to javascript code please.

Hi, I am working on a project and need to learn how to connect a search bar (on the web page) to javascript code. if anyone knows the name of this course, it would be much appreciated.

1 Answer

Michael Liendo
Michael Liendo
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Michael Liendo
Michael Liendo
15,326 Points

I would suggest the jQuery basics course (and any prereqs depending on your skill level). Depending on what you want to do, you may have to check out a backend language course (Node, PHP, Ruby, C# etc). That way, if you want to search a database for a value, you can connect the 2.

Basically, if the user can only put in a few valid search options (No more than 10 or so) and you'll have a nice error be thrown for anything else then you can just store those options in an array and use jQuery to get the value of that was given: 

//when the submit button is clicked, grab the value that was in the input field
$('#submitButton').click(function() {
    var inputtedText = $('#inputFieldID').val();
    //Search your array to return content based on the input
};
Tracy Excell
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Tracy Excell
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Thank you, I have done the JQuery course a friend thought there was a javascript course specifically going through this, but couldn't remember the name. My searches in the library did not help. But I think I have found the way to approach it.