Help with jQuery code?

ghillerson · Post by **ghillerson** » Fri Aug 19, 2016 10:24 am

Hi,

We're seeing problems with search not working some of the time. Specifically, customers using Chrome or MacOS search for a term and get back a results page that shows no results; if they then do a refresh and search again, they get the expected results. I'm assuming this must be a cache issue, and that Chrome and MacOS don't play together so well in this regard, but I need to fix the problem: most of our customers are Mac/Chrome users.

The best possibility I can see is to add some jquery code that triggers when the searchbar gets the focus and does a page refresh before the user types anything. I'm guessing the same code would have to then make the searchbar the focus without triggering the code again.

Can anyone help with this?
- does it seem like a reasonable approach, or can someone come up with a better solution?
- can anyone come up with the jquery code I'd need to add and which selector to use?

Any help/suggestions appreciated.

Gary

kwag_myers · Post by **kwag_myers** » Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:30 am

I did something similar to this with reload (Reloading The Page). It's not jQuery, but might give you something to build from.

I also had a design that called for the Search Bar to be hidden until the icon was clicked (why people insist on hiding things from users is beyond me). I'm wondering if you can use this JS to set the focus on Search? You may need to add /*<![CDATA[*/ and /*]]>*/ inside the <script> tags.

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<script type="text/javascript">
    function toggle_visibility(id) {
       var e = document.getElementById(id);
       if(e.style.display == 'block')
          e.style.display = 'none';
       else
          e.style.display = 'block';
    }
</script>


Simply paste the above snippet of code within the <head> tags and you call it by passing to it the ID of the element you wish to toggle the visibility of (this element can be anything that takes an id attribute). For example: 

<a href="#" onclick="toggle_visibility('foo');">Click here to toggle visibility of element #foo</a>


<div id="foo">This is foo</div> or <div id="foo" style="display: none;"> to hide initially.

I hope this helps.

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Help with jQuery code?

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