Windows® 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed

Using the SearchBox Control

When building Windows 8 apps, you were encouraged to use the Search charm for implementing search in your app. There was a problem, however. Users had difficulty finding the Search charm. They had difficulty discovering that your app even supported search.

Windows 8.1 introduces an alternative. Instead of implementing search with the Search charm, you can implement search with the new WinJS SearchBox control. This control appears right on your page (right in your face). Therefore, it is much more discoverable than the Search charm.

In this section, you learn how to add a SearchBox control to the My Notes app.

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You can find all of the code discussed in this section in the Chapter13\SearchBox project in the GitHub ...