window.location.href not working in Safari when using onkeypress
- by insanepaul
I'm using an asp textbox and a search button. In Safari if I click the search button i get redirected to the search results page using javascript window.location.href. But strangely the same javascript will not redirect to the page if I press return in the textbox.
Using the alert function I can see that window.location.href has the the correct url and the location bar at the top changes from the search page(default.aspx) to the search results url however when I click OK to the alert box the url at the top reverts back to the default.aspx page. It works on ie7/8/firefox/chrome but not safari. Here is my javascript,cs and aspx code:
function submitSearchOnEnter(e) {
var CodeForEnter = 13;
var codeEnteredByUser;
if (!e) var e = window.event;
if (e.keyCode) codeEnteredByUser = e.keyCode;
else if (e.which) codeEnteredByUser = e.which;
if (codeEnteredByUser == CodeForEnter)
RedirectToSearchPage();
}
function RedirectToSearchPage() {
var searchText = $get('<%=txtHeaderSearch.ClientID%>').value
if (searchText.length) {
window.location.href = "Search.aspx?searchString=" + searchText;
}
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtHeaderSearch.Attributes.Add("onkeypress", "submitSearchOnEnter(event)");
}
<asp:Panel ID="pnlSearch" runat="server" DefaultButton="lnkSearch">
<asp:TextBox ID="txtHeaderSearch" runat="server" CssClass="searchBox"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkSearch" OnClientClick="RedirectToSearchPage(); return false;"
CausesValidation="false" runat="server" CssClass="searchButton">
SEARCH
</asp:LinkButton>
</asp:Panel>
I've tried return false; which doesn't allow me to enter any characters in the search box. I've spent ages online trying to find a solution. Maybe it has something to do with setTimeout or setTimeInterval but it didn't work unless i did it wrong.
