Change URL and redirect using jQuery

136
votes

I have some code like this,

<form id="abc">
  <input type="text" id="txt" />
</form>

and now I want to redirect like this,

var temp = $("#txt").val();
url = "http://example.com/" + temp;
window.location.replace(url);
// or window.location(url);

Is there anyway in jQuery to solve this? It still lets me have url = http://example.com.

8
javascriptjqueryurlredirect
Thank alot all of you! Now I still do not know what difference between window.location and window.location.replace. In my example I've just need to post url to my page like that: abc.com/abc to get abc to search in my database with abc is what user typing in put and press enter or button but they always return abc.com?name=abc so I think I can trigger in submit event to redirect and change my url to what I want but they still do nothing. That's all, by the way thank you again! – gacon
I explained the difference between window.location and window.location.replace here: stackoverflow.com/questions/846954/… – Mathias Bynens

8 Answers

346
votes

As mentioned in the other answers, you don't need jQuery to do this; you can just use the standard properties.

However, it seems you don't seem to know the difference between window.location.replace(url) and window.location = url.

  1. window.location.replace(url) replaces the current location in the address bar by a new one. The page that was calling the function, won't be included in the browser history. Therefore, on the new location, clicking the back button in your browser would make you go back to the page you were viewing before you visited the document containing the redirecting JavaScript.
  2. window.location = url redirects to the new location. On this new page, the back button in your browser would point to the original page containing the redirecting JavaScript.

Of course, both have their use cases, but it seems to me like in this case you should stick with the latter.

P.S.: You probably forgot two slashes after http: on line 2 of your JavaScript:

url = "http://abc.com/" + temp;
43
votes

tell you the true, I still don't get what you need, but

window.location(url);

should be

window.location = url;

a search on window.location reference will tell you that.

18
votes

jQuery does not have an option for this, nor should it have one. This is perfectly valid javascript and there is no reason for jQuery to provide wrapper functions for this.

jQuery is just a library on top of javascript, even if you use jQuery you can still use normal javascript.

Btw window.location is not a function but a property which you should set like this:

window.location = url;
13
votes
var temp="/yourapp/";
$(location).attr('href','http://abcd.com'+temp);

Try this... used as an alternative

3
votes

Try this...

$("#abc").attr("action", "/yourapp/" + temp).submit();

What it means:

Find a form with id "abc", change it's attribute named "action" and then submit it...

This works for me... !!!

0
votes

If you really want to do this with jQuery (why?) you should get the DOM window.location object to use its functions:

$(window.location)[0].replace("https://www.google.it");

Note that [0] says to jQuery to use directly the DOM object and not the $(window.location) jQuery object incapsulating the DOM object.

0
votes

You can do it like:

var url = "http://example.com/" + temp;
$(location).attr('href',url);
-2
votes

you can do it simpler without jquery

location = "https://example.com/" + txt.value


function send() {
  location = "https://example.com/" + txt.value;
}
<form id="abc">
  <input type="text" id="txt" />
</form>

<button onclick="send()">Send</button>