I need to redirect the user to a page specificed in an input tag.
<div id="center">
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username">
<button onclick="location.href='rooms/VALUE'" id="connect">EnterRoom</button>
</div>
So where it says "VALUE" inside of the button tag, it would redirect to mysite.com/rooms/VALUE
the "VALUE" input would be inputted by the user inside the input tag.
Any simple way I can do this?
You can get the value of the input using
document.getElementById('username').value
<div id="center">
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username">
<button onclick="location.href='rooms/' + document.getElementById('username').value" id="connect">EnterRoom</button>
</div>If you are using jQuery then;
<button onclick="location.href='rooms/' + $('#username').val() " id="connect">EnterRoom</button>
and with the javascript
<button onclick="location.href='rooms/' + document.getElementById('username').value " id="connect">EnterRoom</button>
Here is a version with script separated from HTML of what you want.
<div id="center">
<input type="text" id="username" placeholder="Username">
<button id="connect">EnterRoom</button>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var value = ""
var username = document.getElementById("username")
username.addEventListener('change', function (e) {
value = e.target.value
console.log(value)
})
var connect = document.getElementById("connect")
connect.addEventListener('click', function (e) {
location.href='rooms/'+value
})
</script>
You can use document.getElementById() in button tag.
onclick="location.href='rooms/' + document.getElementById('username').value"
Its good to have a separate javascript function to do redirect task. In your HTML add onclick event for the button and in javascript function write code to validate and redirect.
HTML
<button onclick="toRedirect()" id="connect">EnterRoom</button>
Javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
function toRedirect(){
// get the user input
var user_value = document.getElementById('username').value ;
// check the validation
if(user_value!=''){
// redirect
location.href='rooms/' + user_value;
}else{
// alert error message
alert("validation error");
}
}
</script>