trigger the search on passing in a value

[petermac]

Hi .. you helped me a while ago with changing the code in my functions file to return the sub-categories on a category search. That is working great. What I want to do now is in jQuery or javascript trigger the keydown keyup event so that the search triggers when I pass it the category value. You can see how this works now on my development home page when you click on the “housing” category the term “housing” is passed to the search tool, but we have to press enter to make it perform the search.

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[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

If I’m not mistaken, you are using this code currently:

[html]jQuery( document ).ready(function($) {
$(‘.cat-head’).on(‘click’, function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var srch = $(this).find(‘.cat-head-element’).html();
$(‘.orig’).val(srch);
});
});[/html]

It’s almost perfect, but the best way of triggering the search, is to use the search javascript API, instead of changing the node values. This should be the best possible solution:

[html]jQuery( document ).ready(function($) {
$(‘.cat-head’).on(‘click’, function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var srch = $(this).find(‘.cat-head-element’).html();
ASP.api(0, ‘searchFor’, srch);
});
});[/html]

To learn more about API functions, you can check this documentation article.

[petermac]

AWESOME ! That works !
Thanks so much !!

[Ernest Marcinko]

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