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how can I make this search form work?

Asked by flashactions in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JavaScript, Search Engines

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I work In a high school and I am working on a page for the students to do their research from.  I have combined many resources into one page, so the students can get their work done faster.  I am trying to make a search box to  search the us sensus bureau.   I have most of the code in place.  I just cant get it to go.  there are a bunch of .js files included in the head section im not sure if they are all necessary either so if you could help me determine that also that would help keep the page load time down.  
here is the link to the census bureau     http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
here is a link to the page im making.   http://mail.cpsd.us/~jgraham/home%20page.htmlStart Free Trial 
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/string_util.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js/javascript/openFeedback.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js/javascript/panel_id.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js/javascript/epss_open.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js/javascript/gotoMainPage.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js/javascript/saff/links_acs.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/javascript/openMetadataBrowser.js/javascript/common/saffmenu.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript"
 src="http://www.census.gov/main/.in/affusclock.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function hasEnoughData(Fld, minLength) {
return (Fld.value.length > minLength) ? true : (Fld.value.indexOf("*") == -1);
}
function hasValidSearchDataNameSearch(countyFld,stateFld) {
var isValidSearchCriteria = true;
var errMsg = "";
var hasCounty = !stringEmpty(countyFld.value);
var hasState = !stringEmpty(stateFld.value); var hCount = 0;
/* work around ns4 issue; element 0 is "- select a state -" */
if (ns4 && !ns5) {
hasState = (stateFld.selectedIndex != 0);
}
if (errMsg == "" && hasCounty && !hasEnoughData(countyFld, 2)) {
if (!hasState) {
errMsg = "Enter either a state or at least two characters in the city/town, county, or zip field. Click 'Go'.";
isValidSearchCriteria = false; }
}
if (errMsg == "" && !hasCounty && !hasState) {
errMsg = "Enter either a state or at least two characters in the city/town, county, or zip field. Click 'Go'.";
isValidSearchCriteria = false; }
if (!isValidSearchCriteria) {
alert(errMsg);
} return isValidSearchCriteria;
}
function mpGeoSearch() {
var termFld = document.fact_sheet_form._search_term;
var stateFld = document.fact_sheet_form._search_state;
termFld.value = trimStringBothSides(termFld.value, " ");
stateFld.value = trimStringBothSides(stateFld.value, " ");
if (termFld.value == "" && stateFld.value == "") {
alert("Enter information in one or both fields. Click 'Go'.");
return;
}
if (hasValidSearchDataNameSearch(termFld, stateFld)) {
document.hidden_geo_search_form._state.value = stateFld.value;
if (termFld.value.match(/^\d\d\d\d\d$/) ||
termFld.value.match(/^\d\d\dHH$/) ||
termFld.value.match(/^\d\d\dXX$/)) {
document.hidden_geo_search_form._zip.value = termFld.value;
document.hidden_geo_search_form._county.value = termFld.value;
document.hidden_geo_search_form._cityTown.value = termFld.value;
}
else {
document.hidden_geo_search_form._zip.value = '';
document.hidden_geo_search_form._county.value = termFld.value;
document.hidden_geo_search_form._cityTown.value = termFld.value;
}
// work around ns4 issue
if (ns4 && !ns5) {
document.hidden_navigation_form._state.value = stateFld.options[stateFld.selectedIndex].value;
} document.hidden_geo_search_form.submit();
}
return;
}
-->
  </script>
  <title>census</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="geosearch-mp">
Get a <b style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Fact Sheet</b>
for your community...<br>
<form name="fact_sheet_form" method="get"
 style="display: inline;" action=""
 onsubmit="mpGeoSearch(); return false;">
  <table style="margin-top: 5px;" border="0"
 cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td align="right"><span class="selgeolabel"
 style="line-height: 100%;"><label for="tx_city_cnty">city/
town,<br>
county, or zip</label></span></td>
        <td><input name="_search_term" id="tx_city_cnty"
 value="" size="24" type="text"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="right"><span class="selgeolabel"
 style="line-height: 100%;"><label for="lb_state">state</label></span></td>
        <td>
        <select name="_search_state" id="lb_state"
 onkeypress="if (isEnterKey(event)) { mpGeoSearch(); }">
        <option value="">-- select a state --</option>
        <option value="04000US01">Alabama</option>
        <option value="04000US02">Alaska</option>
        <option value="04000US04">Arizona</option>
        <option value="04000US05">Arkansas</option>
        <option value="04000US06">California</option>
        <option value="04000US08">Colorado</option>
        <option value="04000US09">Connecticut</option>
        <option value="04000US10">Delaware</option>
        <option value="04000US11">District of Columbia</option>
        <option value="04000US12">Florida</option>
        <option value="04000US13">Georgia</option>
        <option value="04000US15">Hawaii</option>
        <option value="04000US16">Idaho</option>
        <option value="04000US17">Illinois</option>
        <option value="04000US18">Indiana</option>
        <option value="04000US19">Iowa</option>
        <option value="04000US20">Kansas</option>
        <option value="04000US21">Kentucky</option>
        <option value="04000US22">Louisiana</option>
        <option value="04000US23">Maine</option>
        <option value="04000US24">Maryland</option>
        <option value="04000US25">Massachusetts</option>
        <option value="04000US26">Michigan</option>
        <option value="04000US27">Minnesota</option>
        <option value="04000US28">Mississippi</option>
        <option value="04000US29">Missouri</option>
        <option value="04000US30">Montana</option>
        <option value="04000US31">Nebraska</option>
        <option value="04000US32">Nevada</option>
        <option value="04000US33">New Hampshire</option>
        <option value="04000US34">New Jersey</option>
        <option value="04000US35">New Mexico</option>
        <option value="04000US36">New York</option>
        <option value="04000US37">North Carolina</option>
        <option value="04000US38">North Dakota</option>
        <option value="04000US39">Ohio</option>
        <option value="04000US40">Oklahoma</option>
        <option value="04000US41">Oregon</option>
        <option value="04000US42">Pennsylvania</option>
        <option value="04000US72">Puerto Rico</option>
        <option value="04000US44">Rhode Island</option>
        <option value="04000US45">South Carolina</option>
        <option value="04000US46">South Dakota</option>
        <option value="04000US47">Tennessee</option>
        <option value="04000US48">Texas</option>
        <option value="04000US49">Utah</option>
        <option value="04000US50">Vermont</option>
        <option value="04000US51">Virginia</option>
        <option value="04000US53">Washington</option>
        <option value="04000US54">West Virginia</option>
        <option value="04000US55">Wisconsin</option>
        <option value="04000US56">Wyoming</option>
        </select>
        <img src="http://factfinder.census.gov/img/1px.gif"
 alt="" height="1" width="9"><a
 href="javascript:mpGeoSearch()"><img
 src="http://factfinder.census.gov/img/saff/en/go_btn_mp.gif"
 alt="GO" id="btn_fact_sheet_go" align="top"
 border="0" height="19" width="23"></a></td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
  <div style="margin: -1px 20px 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;">
  <a
 href="http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_pageId=gn10_select_state"
 class="selgeolabel">or select a state using a map »</a>
  </div>
</form>
</div>
<br>
</body>
</html>
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