HTMLInputElement: search event

The search event is fired when a search is initiated usinng an <input> element of type="search".

There are several ways a search can be initiated, such as by pressing Enter while the <input> is focused, or, if the incremental attribute is present, after a UA-defined timeout elapses since the most recent keystroke (with new keystrokes resetting the timeout so the firing of the event is debounced).

Current UA implementations of <input type="search"> have an additional control to clear the field. Using this control also fires the search event. In that case the value of the <input> element will be the empty string.

Examples

// addEventListener version
const input = document.querySelector('input[type="search"]');

input.addEventListener('search', () => {
 console.log("The term searched for was " + input.value);
})

// onsearch version
const input = document.querySelector('input[type="search"]');

input.onsearch = () => {
 console.log("The term searched for was " + input.value);
})

Specifications

This event is not part of any specification.

Browser compatibility