How do I clear a search box with an 'x' in bootstrap 3?

Question

Having some trouble with bootstrap, so some help would be awesome. Thanks

What I would like:(top part)

Answer 1

Here is my working solution with search and clear icon for Angularjs\Bootstrap with CSS.

    <div class="form-group has-feedback has-clear">
                    <input type="search" class="form-control removeXicon" ng-model="filter" style="max-width:100%" placeholder="Search..." />
                    <div ng-switch on="!!filter">
                        <div ng-switch-when="false">
                            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-search form-control-feedback"></span>
                        </div>
                        <div ng-switch-when="true">
                            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove-sign form-control-feedback" ng-click="$parent.filter = ''" style="pointer-events: auto; text-decoration: none;cursor: pointer;"></span>
                        </div>
                    </div>                        
                </div>

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CSS

/* hide the built-in IE10+ clear field icon */
.removeXicon::-ms-clear {
  display: none;
}

/* hide the built-in chrome clear field icon */
.removeXicon::-webkit-search-decoration,
.removeXicon::-webkit-search-cancel-button,
.removeXicon::-webkit-search-results-button,
.removeXicon::-webkit-search-results-decoration { 
      display: none; 
}

Answer 2

Do it with inline styles and script:

<div class="btn-group has-feedback has-clear">
    <input id="searchinput" type="search" class="form-control" style="width:200px;">
        <a 
id="searchclear" 
class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove-circle form-control-feedback form-control-clear" 
style="pointer-events:auto; text-decoration:none; cursor:pointer;"
onclick="$(this).prev('input').val('');return false;">
</a>
</div>

Answer 3

To get something like this

with Bootstrap 3 and Jquery use the following HTML code:

<div class="btn-group">
  <input id="searchinput" type="search" class="form-control">
  <span id="searchclear" class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove-circle"></span>
</div>

and some CSS:

#searchinput {
    width: 200px;
}
#searchclear {
    position: absolute;
    right: 5px;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    height: 14px;
    margin: auto;
    font-size: 14px;
    cursor: pointer;
    color: #ccc;
}

and Javascript:

$("#searchclear").click(function(){
    $("#searchinput").val('');
});

Of course you have to write more Javascript for whatever functionality you need, e.g. to hide the 'x' if the input is empty, make Ajax requests and so on. See http://www.bootply.com/121508

Answer 4

Thanks unwired your solution was very clean. I was using horizontal bootstrap forms and made a couple modifications to allow for a single handler and form css.

html: - UPDATED to use Bootstrap's has-feedback and form-control-feedback

 <div class="container">
  <form class="form-horizontal">
   <div class="form-group has-feedback">
    <label for="txt1" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Label 1</label>
    <div class="col-sm-10">
     <input id="txt1" type="text" class="form-control hasclear" placeholder="Textbox 1">
     <span class="clearer glyphicon glyphicon-remove-circle form-control-feedback"></span>
    </div>
   </div>
   <div class="form-group has-feedback">
    <label for="txt2" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Label 2</label>
    <div class="col-sm-10">
      <input id="txt2" type="text" class="form-control hasclear" placeholder="Textbox 2">
      <span class="clearer glyphicon glyphicon-remove-circle form-control-feedback"></span>
    </div>
   </div>
   <div class="form-group has-feedback">
    <label for="txt3" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Label 3</label>
    <div class="col-sm-10">
     <input id="txt3" type="text" class="form-control hasclear" placeholder="Textbox 3">
     <span class="clearer glyphicon glyphicon-remove-circle form-control-feedback"></span>
    </div>   
   </div>
  </form>
 </div>

javascript:

$(".hasclear").keyup(function () {
    var t = $(this);
    t.next('span').toggle(Boolean(t.val()));
});
$(".clearer").hide($(this).prev('input').val());
$(".clearer").click(function () {
    $(this).prev('input').val('').focus();
    $(this).hide();
});

example: http://www.bootply.com/130682

Answer 5

AngularJS / UI-Bootstrap Answer

• Use Bootstrap's has-feedback class to show an icon inside the input field.
• Make sure the icon has style="cursor: pointer; pointer-events: all;"
• Use ng-click to clear the text.

JavaScript (app.js)

var app = angular.module('plunker', ['ui.bootstrap']);

app.controller('MainCtrl', function($scope) {

  $scope.params = {};

  $scope.clearText = function() {
    $scope.params.text = null;
  }

});

HTML (index.html snippet)

      <div class="form-group has-feedback">
        <label>text box</label>
        <input type="text"
               ng-model="params.text"
               class="form-control"
               placeholder="type something here...">
        <span ng-if="params.text"
              ng-click="clearText()"
              class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove form-control-feedback" 
              style="cursor: pointer; pointer-events: all;"
              uib-tooltip="clear">
        </span>
      </div>

Here's the plunker: http://plnkr.co/edit/av9VFw?p=preview

Answer 6

Place the image (cancel icon) with position absolute, adjust top and left properties and call method onclick event which clears the input field.

<div class="form-control">
    <input type="text" id="inputField" />
</div>
<span id="iconSpan"><img src="icon.png" onclick="clearInputField()"/></span>

In css position the span accordingly,

#iconSpan {
 position : absolute;
 top:1%;
 left :14%;
}