How to clear Text in search box once the user selects other option

Question

I have created a view for to search my channels. But when user searches for a specific channel, and when he clicks any other option or on any other event,he redirects to other page but text in search box is not cleared,what i want is, the text in search box should get cleared once he clicks on other option.How can i do this??

Answer 1

You can reset the value of search box with Javascript when page get ready. Create a simple custom module and create a js file in that module. Something like:

//custom.js
(function($, Drupal, window, document, undefined) {
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $('SEARCH-FROM-INPUT').val('');
  });
})(jQuery, Drupal, this, this.document);

Attach this file to the pages those have that search form.

function custom_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){
  if ($form_id == 'SERCH_FORM_ID') {
    $form['#attached']['js'] = array(
      drupal_get_path('module', 'custom') . '/custom.js' => array(
        'type' => 'file',
      ),
    );
  }
}

Update: updated code as per @Andy comment, adding js with '#attached' property

Answer 2

I think you can do it in 2 ways:

1. You can use javascript to clear the value of textfield after page load or on click.

2. You need to rewrite field or rebuild form when option changes.

It`s all that i can say without some code.