Stumbled across a funny little problem with SharePoint and Firefox today. Turns out that with some master pages, Firefox has a problem responding to the “enter key” when using the SearchBoxEx control. In these cases, hitting enter just refreshes the page. I only noticed it because a recent client wanted to hide the Search button. So, it turns out that this problem is actually solved in default.master where Microsoft use two unassuming lines of uncommented code:
<input type="text" name="__spDummyText1" style="display:none;" size=1/>
<input type="text" name="__spDummyText2" style="display:none;" size=1/>
All you have to do is add these two lines to your custom master page anywhere before the final </form> tag.
Thanks to SteveNG for the blog post that solved this for me.
6 comments:
wow, never even knew this was an issue, thanks! i'll add this to my master page right away.
Thanks for sharing this information with all of us.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I implemented your suggestion in my master page and it has NOT solved the problem of Enter not being recognized in firefox. :(
The following page discusses this issue in more detail:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/archive/2009/10/01/enter-key-does-not-submit-search-in-moss-2007-from-firefox.aspx
Too bad asembler, worked for me just fine. Glad to see you got it fixed though.
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