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I use html on my desktop, I have links and 2 searches: google and dictionary. I use Avant Browser. When I type in the search term, and hit enter, it uses IE . Thats the problem. Is there a way to change that in the HTML? Is there settings to be changed? Avant is my default browser.

Thanks in Advance,

Matt

What software are you using for the search.

IE, but i want to use avant.

If you are searching using IE, it's never going to show up in Avant. I don't use Avant, does it not have a search function? If not you may want to try a search tool like WebFerret. www.ferretsoft.com, as long as you have your browsers install, you can tell it which browser to open. I have been using Web Ferret for about 6 or 7 years now.

I don't really inderstand what you mean.

Right now I use Avant. On its toolbar, it searches through google. It is my default browser.

On my desktop, I have a search bar:

code:

<div id="search">
	<form action="http://www.google.com/search" name="f" target="_new">
		<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" />
		<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
		<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
    <span class="title">SEARCH GOOGLE</span><br />
		<input name="q" type="text" class="textbox" size="60" maxlength="256"/>
	</form>
</div>

According to the AvantBrowser website AB needs parts of IE in order to work. They suggest upgrading to the latest version. Also I found this.

How do I get search results (from the search bar) to appear in a new tab?
Hold down the shift key while pressing the search button. Shift-click works for any link. Hopefully an option will be included in the future in the Avant options menu to do this automatically.

There is also a procedure for changing the default association of a file but it's not for the timid. You can find it by opening "My Computer" then clicking the Menu Item "Folder Options" then click the "File Types" tab.

In the Registered File Types: box you can scroll thru the list and find .html and .htm extensions and others. (all the ones that have IE association) then click change. There you can change which program is used with you click on that file type. Alternately you can just remove the association. Then when the system tries to open that file type it will prompt you for a program. Then you can either make it permanent or let it prompt you every time. But that get's to be a pain in the .... well you know.

Can you code through html to use webferret? It seems to give good results.

View, Options, Client and it should show your Advant Browser.