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I'm fairly new to jquery and I think this is simple but I'm struggling and google doesn't seem to be helping....
What I have is a basic form...
First Name: < input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName" />
Surname: < input type="text" name="surname" id="surname" />
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
Now when submit is clicked I want to goto a url but then add the froms values to the url string (but not using the form method=get) basicly I want this to happen
on click of submit goto
http://myurl.com/index.html?params=firstNamevalue*surnamevalue
I've been hacking about with the jquery but where I'm upto is something like this...
< script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript">< /script>
< script type="text/javascript">
google.load("jquery", "1.3.1");
</script>
< script type="text/javascript">
var = firstName $("#firstName").val();
var = surname $("#surname").val();
$('#submit').click(function(){
window.location = ???;
< /script>
hopefully I've been farily clear - I'd greatly appreciate any help!
jQuery serialize might help in a simple case like the one you describe:
$('#form').submit(function(){
location.href = 'index.html'+$(this).serialize();
var surname = $("#surname").val();
location.href = "index.html?firstName=" + firstName + "&surname=" + surname
Of course, you could make a function that accepts a list of key/value pairs in an object and make this generic, but you get the idea.
$('#submit').click( function() {
location.href = "";
return false;
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thank you both for your help on this...
I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong with your methods or if I hadn't described what I needed to do well enough...
The solution in the end for me was this...
first file contains a a form with method="get"
< form method="get" action="getParams.html">
First Name: < input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName" />
Surname: < input type="text" name="surname" id="surname" />
< input type="submit" id="submit" value="submit"/>
< /form>
this directs to get params and as the method=get the url ends with getParams.html?firstname=""&surname=""
Then in the getParams.html page this is simply used for the formatting (as i need it to be) from the url and redirect...
I used attached jquery followed by this plugin http : // projects.allmarkedup.com/jquery_url_parser/
with the js:
var firstName = jQuery.url.param("firstName");
var surname = jQuery.url.param("surname");
location.href = 'http://myOnlineMag/issue01.html?params=' + firstName + '*' + surname;
pulls the values I want form the url as vars then attaches them to the end of my url. (I needed these in this specific format - can't share a link until the projects live but I can post next week if you would like.)
