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Part 6: Make sure the plug-in displays the search output correctly.

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Step 6a:

Look at the HTML code for the results of your search.

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  • Remember the search results you saved in Step 2c?
    It's time to take a look at them to see how the HTML code is written.

    In our example, the output page looks like this:

Search Output: Click to enlarge!
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  • Note that:
    • The "Location" box contains the actual search request we ran.
    • The list of search results starts with the phrase "Search Results"
    • The first search result in the list starts with the word "Viking"
    • The second search result in the list starts with the word "MacWEEK".

     

  • Use Netscape to View-->Page Source, and look at the HTML:

    Find where the list of search results start:

    • We use Netscape's Edit-->Find to find the phrase "Search Results".
      finding resultsListStart

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    Find where the first search result starts and ends:

    1. We find the start of the list, and the start of the 1st item clearly marked, but nothing to indicate the end of the 1st item.

      Here's what it looks like in our example:

      finding resultItemStart
    2. Somewhere above the "START ITEM" next to the arror is the end of the 1st item in the list. So, we look around and.....

      Here's where the end of the 1st item is in our example:

      finding resultsItemEnd

    Find where the relevance number for each search result is located:

    • <not applicable in this example>

    Find where the list of search results ends:

    • Scroll down the HTML code until you find where the list of search results ends.

      In our example, it's also very clearly indicated.

      finding resultsListEnd




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