Automatic Search

[mark87]

I'm looking for a way to submit a search form if the user has stopped typing for say, 1 second.

I tried using setTimeout onkeyup, but of course, that starts running as soon as the first key is pressed, and therefore searches 1 second after that...

<input type="text" onkeyup="runTimer()" name="s" id="s" />

[Philip M]

onkeydown = "cancelTimer()"

Pity the chap who pauses to sneeze while typing his search terms in!

[mark87]

Thanks. How can I actually stop/start a timer though? Not very good with Javascript!

It's just a test for now, based pretty much on live searches.

[Philip M]

function runTimer() {
x = setTimeout ("runTimer()", 1000); /// 1 second delay
}

onkeyup = "runTimer()"

onkeydown = "clearTimeout(x)"

See also http://www.codingforum.net/showthread.php?t=95823