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window.location.href does not change the URL

rated 0 times [ 25] [ 5] / answers: 1 / hits: 23943 / 12 Years ago, sun, november 18, 2012, 12:00:00

I would like to change the URL that appears once a form has been submitted although the code below does not appear to do what I would like it to do. How do I change the URL in the address bar?

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XMHTML 1.0 Strict//EN

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd>



<html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml xml:lang=en lang=en>

<head>

    <meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;charset=UTF-8 />

    <meta http-equiv=content-language content=en-us />

    <meta http-equiv=cache-control content=no-cache />

    <meta http-equiv=pragma content=no-cache />

    <meta name=keywords content= />

    <meta name=description content= />

    <meta name=author content= />

    <meta name=copyright content=&copy; 2012 />

    <meta name=robots content=noindex, nofollow />



    <title>sample form</title>



    <link rel=stylesheet type=text/css media=all href= />



    <style type=text/css>



    </style>



    <script type=text/javascript>



        var testurl = window.location.href;

        if(testurl == file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/sample_form.html?q=test&submit=submit) {

            testurl = testurl.replace(/q=[^&]+&[a-z]+=[a-z]+/,'test');

            alert(testurl);

        }



    </script>

</head>



<body>



    <form name=sampleform id=sampleform method=get action=sample_form.html>

        <input type=text name=q value= id=q />

        <input type=submit name=submit value=submit id=submit />

    </form>



</body>

</html>

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answered 12 Years ago shylaelisan · Accepted Answer

Try the following:

<script type=text/javascript>



    var testurl = document.URL;

    if(testurl == file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/sample_form.html?q=test&submit=submit) {

        testurl = testurl.replace(/q=[^&]+&[a-z]+=[a-z]+/,'test');

        window.location.href = testurl;

    }



</script>

A note:

Use window.location for read and write access to the location object
associated with the current frame. If you just want to get the address
as a read-only string, you may use document.URL, which should contain
the same value as window.location.href