How do I make it so that the summit button only works when something is typed in the search box?

Question

Search box summit button

Answer 1

add a 'required' attribute to a search box (without quotes of course)

Answer 2

that worked thanks

Answer 3

you can use php script to check if the search input field is empty, such that when it is empty then the page will die the execution of the script and reload back or echo something out for u informing you of the empty field but the easiest and simple way out is the HTML property " required " which will always detect empty field for u.

Answer 4

Java script can as well do the same as the php script even faster depending on your coding capacity because it needs no reload before outputting unlike php which a server side script