Enter text and submit with Onclick

[yandao1976]

Hi all experts,

Currently i have a project that requires my webpage to have a text box.
After entering the text (8-digits only) and click on the ENTER button, it should bring me to another webpage (example, http://xxxxxx.asp).

Appreciate if anyone can advise or provide sample codings on this.
Thanks a lot,

CL

[rangana]

Why need an onclick event? You can make use of the action attribute of the form:

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<form action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="q">
<input type="submit" value="Enter">
</form>


[yandao1976]

Hi,

Maybe i re-phrase my question.
When i click on the BUTTON, it will bring me to a site, retrieving information from the database.
The text which i have entered in the text box will be pass into into the URL as a key field to extraction the information from the database.

Example:
Text entered : '20000001'.
The URL will append this text field into "http://xxxx/xx.asp?reqno=" to become http://xxxx/xx.asp?reqno=2000001, and display the information.

Please advise, thanks

[rangana]

You can use the get method:

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<form action="#" method="get">


...In practice:

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<form action="http://www.google.com/search" moethod="get">
<input type="text" name="q">
<input type="submit" value="Enter">
</form>


Now, you need server-side (PHP) to process the get-data.

Hope that makes sense.