bookmarklet

[mkengel]

I would appreciate receiving some help:

I have a bookmarklet which copies a marked set of characters into a
searchpage in our dictionary. If nothing is copied, a window opens
where you can type a word.

BTW, it is for firefox 2.0.

javascript:s=window.getSelection();if(s=='')for(i= 0;i<frames.length;i++){s=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(s)break;}if(!s)void(s= prompt('some
text.',''));if(s){test=open('URL/search.pl?searchphrase='+escape(s));test.focus();}
This works well.

We have another search /command which needs to be finished with
&search= after the searchphrase

searchphrase="here comes the markedtyped set of characters"&search=

Can anyone of you help me changing the bookmarklet or point me to a
site where I can read more about this ?

If you have an idea how to make the script shown above better, I also
would appreciate very much.

Thank you

Michael

[Randy Webb]

mkengel said the following on 1/21/2007 6:28 AM:

I would appreciate receiving some help:

I have a bookmarklet which copies a marked set of characters into a
searchpage in our dictionary. If nothing is copied, a window opens
where you can type a word.

BTW, it is for firefox 2.0.

javascript:s=window.getSelection();if(s=='')for(i= 0;i<frames.length;i++){s=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(s)break;}if(!s)void(s= prompt('some
text.',''));if(s){test=open('URL/search.pl?searchphrase='+escape(s));test.focus();}
This works well.

We have another search /command which needs to be finished with
&search= after the searchphrase

searchphrase="here comes the markedtyped set of characters"&search=

Change your if(s) statement (the last one) to something like this:

test=open('URL/search.pl?searchphrase='+escape(s) + '&search=');

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