redirect user to current page with some querystrin

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=textboxvalue

I have this so far but its not working:

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

Answer 1

    function Redirect()
      {
    window.location.href = "URL_TO_BE_Redircted";
      }

then In button (asp.net)

    <asp:Button runat="server" id="btnRedirect" onClientClick="Redirect();return false;"/>

So after clicking on the button the control will go at serverside , and there
you can access the Querystring you form !

Answer 2

You are changing the wrong location property if you only want to change the search string. I think you want to do this:

location.search = "?search=" + encodeURIComponent( $("#someId").val());

Answer 3

you need to prepend the actual base url

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

Answer 4

What part isn't working?

Try encodeURI() rather than escape().

Answer 5

$("a").click(function() {

 document.location.href += "?search=" + encodeURIComponent($("#myTextBox").val());


});

Answer 6

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