Pressing The Space Key While Searching Causes The Cursor To Jump To The Main page

[Jim]

Hi,

Sorry for the long subject line but this is a new one on me.

I have Yahoo as my start page in IE6. When I click on the Search button
(magnifying glass) in IE's tool bar the search pane appears left screen as
it should. I type the first word I am looking for and press the space bar so
I can type the second. As soon as the space bar is pressed the cursor jumps
from the search pane window to Yahoo's "Search the Web" input area. This is
frustrating as I have to click back on the search pane area to continue.

I have tried different pages like Google, msn, and the like. This only
happens when Yahoo is the page in view.

I do not use any type of Yahoo toolbars or anyone else's for that
matter. I am running MS Antispyware and AVG antivirus. Both say I an clean.

Is there a fix for this?
TIA
Jim

 

[Rob Parsons]

It depends on what search provider you are using in the IE Search Explorer
bar. The Search provider writes the search page that is displayed in the
Explorer Bar. It sounds like that they are testing for the space key in the
search input box and setting focus to the main window when it is pressed.

An easy work-around is to use the '+' character instead of the space
character to deliminate your search terms.
eg. my search becomes my+search

 

[Jim]

Hi Rob

Interesting, the "+" did the trick.

I am using all available search engines (is there a way to add more?). MSN
is the first on the list. I unchecked it and restarted IE. Overture is now
the first one. Same thing with it as well. I can't be 100% sure but this
seemed to start happening with the last XP update.

On another note is there a way to Excite to show its results in the right
instead of the same pane. Should I make this a new post?

Thanks
Jim
P.S. Sorry about the reply to hotmail. Obviously I wasn't paying attention.