redirect user to current page with some querystring using javascript

Question

When a person clicks on a link, I want to do this:

1. grab the text from a textbox
2. encode the text
3. redirect to currentpage.aspx?search=textboxva

Answer 1

you need to prepend the actual base url

window.location.href = window.location.href + "?search=" + escape( $("#someId").val());