JavaScript onclick redirect

Question

I have this text field and button here

Answer 1

There are several issues in your code :

• You are handling the click event of a submit button, whose default behavior is to post a request to the server and reload the page. You have to inhibit this behavior by returning false from your handler:

  onclick="SubmitFrm(); return false;"
  

• value cannot be called because it is a property, not a method:

  var Searchtxt = document.getElementById("txtSearch").value;
  

• The search query you are sending in the query string has to be encoded:

  window.location = "http://www.mysite.com/search/?Query="
      + encodeURIComponent(Searchtxt);