What is find() doing in this HTML page?

Question

I am somewhat unfamiliar with JavaScript and very unfamiliar with Angular, so if you are familiar with these it will be a basic question. I have inherited an HTML form with the following:

<form ng-submit="find()">

SOME STUFF

<button id="find-button" ng-click="find()" ng-show="findBox.findType != FIND_ALL">Search</button>

MORE STUFF

</form>

My question is...what is the find() function doing when the SEARCH button is clicked? Is this some kind of built in function, and if so, what is it doing? I can't find any documentation on it anywhere. Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

The find() function is not predefined. It is user created function in javascript. Go look at your js file and find where it defines the function.

Answer 2

find() is implemented on the page somewhere as a function in that context. You'd have to dig around your JS files to determine what it's doing.

Answer 3

Find the function find in your whole project, try searching for

function find(

or

var find = function(

The one you mentioned above in a comment (in choose-chems.js the $scope.find = function ()) doesn't seem to be the function you are looking for.