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I have what I think is a very straightforward piece of code for a simple search on my site:

<div id="search">
 {exp:search:simple_form weblog="articles" result_page="search/results" results="10" where="any" search_in="everywhere"}
    <input type="text" class="search-text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="Search this website" /> 
    <input type="image" src="/images/btn-search.gif" class="search-submit" /> 
{/exp:search:simple_form}
</div>

The form field, when displayed, only contains “undefined undefined” and the HTML rendered is this:

<input type="text" class="search-text" name="keywords" id="keywords">

The value is missing. I’ve tried removing the value attribute to no avail. Ideas? Thanks!

Hi Julie,

Can you provide a little more detail please? What do you mean when you say you’ve tried removing the value attribute? Which version and build is this installation? Please list any addons you are using for this site and do you have a public page where we can see this issue?

Cheers

Greg

Sure thing:

By “removing the value attribute”, I mean that I removed the ’ value=“Search this website” ’ from the <input> tag itself. I also tried ’ value=”” ‘. FWIW, the value was working just fine until I added the ee fields around it… And the search submits just fine.

I’m using EE 1.6.9 Build 20100415

I’ve PM’d you the site and can offer you credentials if you’d like. It is not exactly public yet 😊

I’m using quite a few addons
Playa (3.0.9)
Wygwam(2.1.4)
Tab Forward
LG Add Sitename
Rating (2.3.3)
Tag(3.0.2)
User(3.1.0)
Category Checkboxes
Low Seg2Cat
FieldFrame
Clone Entries
jQuery is enabled
Low NoSpam
Edit Tab AJAX
and a custom extension to add elements to the .htaccess file on entry publish

Hi, Julie.

When I take your same code and plug it into its own template, the value attribute fills in correctly.

This means that the code itself is sound, but there is something on your individual template that is causing the problem.

About the best thing I can suggest you doing is to greatly reduce your template, and then add back in complexity until you figure out what broke it.

NOTE: I tried this with EE1.7.0 with no third party add-ons.