Perhaps my wording was not entirely clear--what I meant was, regardless of what the button does, I want to activate it without tabbing or clicking, just using search. This works well with anchor tags, but does not work with buttons.
I meant navigating in the sense of moving the viewport and mouse around a static page rather than moving from page to page.
That doesn't make any sense. First, the current page doesn't matter. Secondly, "doing something" doesn't define what "something" is. Finally, your complaint is having to click on the button, implying that you have to click on a button to activate it.
Sorry, your just being very confusing, using words and terminology you don't seem to be familiar with.