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How do I switch between HTML pages in JavaScript

I've made a search bar in my web page and I'm trying to get the user input and compare it to a keyword. If it matches, show the user what he is searching for in another page.
The problem is that I don't know how to switch between pages of the HTML using JavaScript (being in page1.html and then take the user to page2.html if the keyword matches).
I've tried to implement href to a function and then running it when the search button is pressed but I haven't found a way to do it.
Here is the code:
<script>
let search = getElementById("Search").value;
if (search == "Keyword") {
//a href="page2.html" - (this is was my main idea, but i haven't found a way to implement it correctly)
}
</script>

First, you have to get the value from the input that you create and then you have to compare between the value that you get it and the specific keyword that you want, and after that, you have to create a button to submit with it. Then you can try this line
window.location.href=“./Page2.htm”;
inside if condetion.

try with:
window.location.href=“./Page2.htm”;

You can use
window.open(stringURL);
to open the html in a new window.
To open a new tab:
window.open(stringURL, “_blank”);
For more info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open

Javascript, Ajax and form submission/response

I'm hoping there is a simple solution to this, or else its possible AJAX time!
I WAS using ClickBank. I had a simple button on my page. That sent the form data to a script, I processed the data, and then added a redirect at end of script to jump to the "pay" link. Nice n' easy
But now I'm switching to "Click2Sell" ... and they have a direct href to their site.
Now I COULD use javascript to read the form data, place it into their "cp_" prefix, and create a super long (about 400 chars) query string and send that to their server, then re-read the data at the IPN stage ...
?country=UK&area=essex&desc=This is the data entered by the user 'whatever'
(but that leads to a little fact that certain parts might need to be escaped(?) such as the spaces and the " ' " or whatever other symbol they enter)
So I devised this method:
<javascript>
function send_data(){
document.user.submit();
return true;
}
</javascript>
<div name="noshowdiv"><object name="noshow"></object></div>
<form method="post" target="noshow" name="user">
<input type="text" name="country">
<input type="text" name="area">
<textarea name="desc"></textarea>
</form>
<img src="xxx" onclick="return send_data();">
In a nutshell, when the button is clicked, it jumps to the function, and submits the form data to my script, and then returns to the hyperlink to submit the second form via the hyperlink.
Two problems: Firstly, the data returned by my script is opening in a new tab rather than the <div>, (I suspect 'cos the submit option loses track of the sending window) and also, I need to get a response from my script which I can then append to the href link.
For example, if the form records the user's data on line 5 on my server, the script will return "id=5" I would then make the hyperlink "click2sell.asp?cp_id=5"
As I've said, I suspect this is a job for Ajax and a HttpRequest ... which is a whole new area to me. Any advice?

For the first problem, it opens a new tab because you have target="no-show" on your form.
For the second problem, if you want to use Ajax, I recommend you use jQuery, it will simplify a lot of the code.
But the best option is probably that you completely remove the direct link to click2sell, and just add a submit button to your form. Post the form to your site, which will store whatever info it needs, assigns an ID, and builds the click2sell URL with the ID in one of the parameters, and redirect to it.
Now how you would do that depends on what server-side language you use.

(I think) I have managed to find a work around, which was using the first option to reconstruct the href link. I couldn't iterate through the form as there are values that don't need to be forwarded. First I get the value, load it into a variable, then use an encode function I discovered online, and then reassign to the form ...
var cp_cc=document.getElementById('cc').value;
var cp_cs=document.getElementById('cs').value; // plus 10 other values
var str='&cp_cc='+encodeURIComponent(cc)+'&cp_cs='+encodeURIComponent(cs)+ // etc
var send_str=document.getElementById('c2s_bn_lnk_36288').href;
document.getElementById('c2s_bn_lnk_36288').href=send_str+str;
The "no-show" was a slip up in my typing! Alas, the answer given above wouldn't work as the Click2sell button also includes two calls to external JS files - and they give you no idea what they do, but is something to do with initializing the button, (it passes the "36288" to the script to do ???). And whilst using "Location: ..\n\n" on my server would redirect to their site, it wouldn't action whatever those external files do. (OK, so I didn't give the full facts, but I didn't want to increase the post size with data I felt didn't relate to problem)
** Now got to amend the listening scripts such that rather than set the ID number up front then jump to C2S, it now waits for C2S to send the data back to me and then sets up the database!!

Dynamic Confirmation Message on a confirm.html

I am trying to create a Javascript function to display a dynamic confirmation message, that will appear on a confirm.html page. It needs to be in an external Javascript file so that it can be used on a variety of pages. I've tried a variety of things but I just cant quite get it to work correctly. I'm trying to do it with only Javascript.
This is what I have currently, after doing some research
This is button I'm using to call the function
<input type="button" value="Remove" onclick="dynamicMessage('This product has been deleted')">
and the current function I'm using is
function dynamicMessage(argument)
{
var test = window.open("./confirm.html","_self");
test.document.write("test");
test.document.close();
}
Obviously, the dynamic content isn't added in yet, but if my thinking is correct, it should just be adding the argument somewhere in the long string of html I need to add to create the page. The "test is just do see what happens when calling the function.
What I want it to do is, write the "test" to the new window of confirm.html, but instead it overwrites the current window. But if I only call window.open, it opens to the correct window. It is the document.write part that is throwing me off.
I'm not sure if I'm far off base on my thinking, or if its just a simple mistake I'm missing after hours of looking at this code. Any Ideas?
I think I need to clarify what I am trying to do. I am trying to click a button, in this case a remove button, then open up the page confirm.html, edit the content in confirm.html with the argument, and have the current page now be confirm.html. What currently happens is one of two things either the current document is edited if the "_self" tag is placed, or the html page is open and thus an about_blank url.

Hope i understood your question | DEMO
Since you are using document.write method it will overwrite contents of your html page
function dynamicMessage(argument)
{
var test = window.open("./confirm.html","_blank");
test.document.write(argument);
setTimeout(function(){test.close()},2000); // after 2 sec it will close
}

How to use JavaScript & DOM on one html page to externally link to another html page

So basically I have two html pages in the same folder. One of them is the homepage, while the other is a page that basically is a form. Once the person fills out the form and clicks the submit button, I would like to make it so that it automatically changes the homepages information with the information written out on the form using DOM.
What I have tried:
Using an external & same JavaScript file for each HTML document, Firefox console said that the id is null
Using global variables, did not work.
If I haven't worded this well enough or if you don't understand, please comment and tell me!
Here's an example of what I tried to do, didn't work because the div with id type is in a different HTML document.
function submitform(){
var textbox = document.getElementsByName('name').item(0);
value= textbox.value;
window.alert(value);
document.getElementById('type').innerHTML = value;
}

Passing variables to one page from another requires some form of query with paramters, ie. newpage.php?newdata='This came from the old page'. You'll need to implement one of several options: as already mentioned, you could store the submitted data in cookies and then retrieve them on the subsequent page load, you could send the data back to the homepage using an actual submit query (see above) or you could use an AJAX routine to send the data to the home page without any type of submit action.

Form page:
function submitform(){
var textbox = document.getElementsByName('name')[0];
value = textbox.value;
localStorage["name"] = value; //save it in localStorage
} //for later use
Homepage:
function showStuff(){
var value = localStorage["name"]; //get the information back
document.getElementById('type').innerHTML = value; //put it in
}
localStorage is supported on all major browsers. If you need to support < IE9, try jStorage.
Try a DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/r4fXw/ or http://pastebin.com/SurbLhWZ
Why none of your attempts works
Using an external & same JavaScript file for each HTML document, Firefox console said that the id is null
Variables are not shared cross different webpages.
Using global variables, did not work.
Same as #1.

How do I send values between pages using javascript?

I am currently using a javascript code to make an entire row in my table clickable. Once the row is clicked a function is ran, I am wondering what I can use to redirect to a PHP page and preferably send a post variable along with it. My guess is AJAX but I am not sure how or if it would work.
Javascript
function DoNav(theUrl) {
document.location.href = theUrl;
};
HTML
<tr onclick="DoNav('myphpscript.php');">
I have access to jQuery so that is also an option. Any help is appreciated, Thanks!

If you need to POST the data (not use GET), One easy option is to create a form element on the fly, attach input elements with the values you need and submit it. You can do that like so if you use jQuery:
$(function() {
$('tr').click(function() {
var mail_id = /* get the mail id of this row... not sure where since I dont' have the HTML */
$('body').append('<form method="post" action="myphpscript.php" id="donavform" style="display:none;"></form>');
$('#donavform').append('<input type="hidden" name="mid" value="'+mail_id+'" />');
$('#donavform').submit();
});
});
Hope that makes sense. If not, let me know! It's, okay...
Explanation:
The very first line is a jQuery shortcut way of saying "when the document is done loading..." So, when the page is done loading, I'm going to attach an event listener to all elements in the document. When one of those elements is clicked, we can then extract the mail id (and whatever else you need) that is in relation to that particular table row. So, if you had HTML like this:
<!-- 8435 is the mail ID in this example. -->
<tr id="row3">8435</tr>
Then we could extract the mail_id variable like so:
var mail_id = $(this).html();
Now, we are going to attach a hidden form element to the end of the body of the HTML (it doesn't really matter where we put it since it is hidden... so, the end is fine). In this form element, we set the method to POST and the action to whatever php file you need to POST to. I also set an ID so it's easily referred to in the next step.
I'm now going to select the newly-created form element using its ID and I'm going to append a new hidden input element to it with the appropriate name value pair.
$('#donavform').append('<input type="hidden" name="mid" value="'+mail_id+'" />');
Finally, I'm going to use the jQuery JavaScript submit method to trigger the submit event on the form. This is basically equivalent to pressing the 'submit' button on a normal form.
Try it out, it should work flawlessly.

If you're going to a new page, just submit the form as usual. Put the data in form fields (hidden if required). No need to Ajax, jQuery or any other magic unless you want to stay on the same page and post in the background.

If the amount of data is not ridiculously large, use a query string...
<tr onclick="DoNav('myphpscript.php?key=value');">
Or if you need a natural HTTP post, you can programmatically submit the form with Javascript...
onclick="document.forms[0].submit();"

You could send the data along in a cookie. There's a nice jQuery plugin that helps with setting cookies in the jQuery namespace.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/cookie