From the course: Building Great Forms with HTML and CSS
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Search forms: What are they?
From the course: Building Great Forms with HTML and CSS
Search forms: What are they?
- [Narrator] What is search? Incorporating a search feature streamlines navigation. It increases user interaction, lengthens visit time, and provides valuable data about your users' preferences. It's always best to provide as many ways to find information as possible. It also cuts down on the number of clicks visitors have to register before finding the data they want. In almost all cases, adding a search to your site will always be beneficial. In regards to adding search to your website, you have some options. The most common search boxes are scripted in coding languages such as PHP or Perl. The code is housed on the server, and when information is typed in a box and sent, the server-side engine runs the script and produces the results. Some search scripts will run a crawl on your entire website each time a search is made by a user. Other scripts will periodically crawl your site and create a search index, and it is this…
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