10th March 2009 - 5 minutes read time
Using server side scripts to search for things can be as complex or as simple as the situation requires. However, if you have a table of results and you just want to enable a simple JavaScript search on that table then this might be the script for you.
To search a table using JavaScript you need to split the table into bits, this can be done using the getElementsByTagName() function, which takes the name of the element that you want to capture. So to grab all of the rows of a table as an array you need to pass the value of tr.
var rows = document.getElementsByTagName("tr");
We can then iterate through these rows, grabbing the column that you want to search on, with the following code.
