HTML question?

[KayeNg]

Is it ok to ask html questions here?

I'm using bluegriffon to make a website and I need to insert a perl script:

<form style="width: 255px;" action="/cgi-sys/entropysearch.cgi"
target="searchwindow"><font color="#333333"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 22pt" size="6"> <input name="query"
value="" type="text"> <input name="user" value="mywebsi"
type="hidden"> <input name="basehref" value="http://mywebsite.org"
type="hidden"> <input name="template" value="default"
type="hidden"> <input value="Search" type="submit">
<br>
</font></font></font></form>

The above is a search bar and I want it to be placed beside a series of buttons.

Four example, in a single row, I have home, about us, contact, site map buttons. To the right of these four buttons, there should be a search bar.

When I insert the code to where I think it should be, the search bar is placed a row below the row of buttons, instead of being beside them.

help please

[kpatz]

Put the row of buttons inside the <form>.

So, you'd have:


<form style="width: 255px;" action="/cgi-sys/entropysearch.cgi"
target="searchwindow">
<!-- Put code for row of buttons here-->
<font color="#333333" face="FreeSans, sans-serif"
style="font-size: 22pt"> <input name="query"
value="" type="text"> <input name="user" value="mywebsi"
type="hidden"> <input name="basehref" value="http://mywebsite.org"
type="hidden"> <input name="template" value="default"
type="hidden"> <input value="Search" type="submit">
<br>
</font></form>

Also, if the row of buttons is in a table, I'd add another column (<td>...</td> tag) to the table and put the search bar there.

Also, you can see I consolidated your <font> tags for you as well. I removed the font size=6 since it's redundant with the font-size: 22pt in the style attribute.

It's more standard nowadays to use CSS for fonts and styles nowadays, but if you're just starting out you can learn that later.

[KayeNg]

Excellent! Thank you!

[KayeNg]

Hey kpatz, I can't seem to change to width of the text box, the box where one types whatever it is he's searching for.

[slickymaster]

Thread moved to Programming Talk.

[SeijiSensei]

Hey kpatz, I can't seem to change to width of the text box, the box where one types whatever it is he's searching for.

Use CSS:


<textarea style='width:500px; height:300px'></textarea>


You can use the same method with "<input type='text' ...>".