<div class="search_results" id="results"><xt:filelist sort_type="name" sort_dir="asc" folder="/path/to/files" template="" per_page="10" filter="dummyentry*" /></div> <form id="srchfrm" onsubmit="return validateForm()" action="<xt:url />" method="get"> <div class="search_form"> <input name="srch" value=""/> <br /> <input type="submit" value="search" /> </div> </form>

Paste this javascript code below the above search code in your xtgem site
<script type="text/javascript"> var dflt = '\<div style=\"text-align:center\"\>SEARCH MY FILES\</div\>'; var nrslts ='\<div style=\"text-align:center\"\>NO RESULTS\</div\>'; if ("" != "") {var rslts=document.getElementById("results").innerHTML; if (rslts == "") {document.getElementById("results").innerHTML= nrslts;}} else {document.getElementById("results").innerHTML= dflt;}; function validateForm() {var inp=document.forms["srchfrm"]["srch"].value; if (inp==null || inp==""){return false;}} </script>