Sunday, March 11, 2012

Ajax search box on asp.net - control available?

I've looked for the functionality and could not really find it. What you want to look for is a DHTML library. DHTML -> Dynamic HTML which allows manipulation of the objects loaded in the web browser. The Yahoo Interface Library has a lot of the components required.

To implement search, check the link below :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/09/WebSearch/default.aspx

For a popup like that of the asp.net site

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/overlapcontent.htm

HTH,
Suprotim Agarwal

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Thank you. The DHTML example does well explain how to produce overlays. What I also need is a method to fill the content of the overlay with ajax functionality. As a minimum I need a search function in there (with result display) plus a multiview that allows to select a certain category within the search results only.

I have used ajax in overlays with Anthem.Net before, it was an autocomplete searchbox. I had to customize it to display multiple columns, so I could see the DHTML / ajax interaction is fairly complex to implement. I was hoping, something like the neat search box on ajax.net was available as a control.

Regards
Tim

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