I am building a flask website and am trying to make a search bar that is always on the top menù, I would have liked to handle it in the Python backend but I could not find a way to do that without including whithin each backed page the code to handle it (which if it is the only way is fine) so I decided to try making it work with JavaScript. This is my code (without the parts which I found unrelated to the problem):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="search" id="searchbar"/>
<button id="goto">Search</button>
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById("goto").addEventListener("click", goTo);
function goTo()
{
var result = document.getElementById("searchbar").value;
window.location.href = "/users/"+result;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
What it is supposed to do is redirect me to "http://myip/users/WhatItyped" while it just adds "/?" to the end of the URL, any idea of why this is?
Update: I found out that if I add an alert before defining result it works
