It occurs to me that I didn't specify much about my environment. I'm
using PHP + MySQL to do my searching, and hoping for AJAX to make it a
bit more dynamic. I don't have and am not at all familiar with Ruby on
Rails, so I'm mostly hoping for a lightweight JavaScript approach. I did
download the Scriptaculous framework/library which I thought might do
the trick, but I've not figured out a way to make that work. (It seems
to be more into regular auto-completion rather than narrowing the
results display.

Ken

Ken Irwin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm looking for what ought to be a straightfoward and easily-available
> code example to copy from: an html form that narrows its search
> results on the fly based on user input. I've had no trouble finding
> form-autocomplete functions that help the user find a search term, but
> I'm looking for something a little different. I want:
>
> 1. The textbox up here; user types content and the content of #2
> narrows accordingly
> ----
> 2. A separate div with some fairly complicated entries based on the
> search results down here in a separate div
>
> Does anyone have some straightforward code for this? (I'm fairly
> certain that Ch. 4 of /Ajax for dummies/ had a Google-search example
> of this, but the sample code I downloaded for that a year ago has
> ceased functioning, and I don't have the book in my possession right
> now to re-download that book's examples.
>
> And likewise: any favorite Ajax sites that give lots of examples +
> code? I'm finding that to be less prevalent than I'd imagined...
>
> Thanks!
> Ken
>
>
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> Ken Irwin
> Reference Librarian
> Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

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