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HTML

Posted by Kevin Makepeace
Kevin Makepeace
4,351 Points

HTML input type=text How I can execute any input? or have href another html depending on the input.

HTML
-Form, Input, Action.
I am trying to have any text from, input type="text", to href or action. Depending on the text input to href or action another html or mp4. I may need to action= php or java, but I would like to keep it all in one page.

Ex. If the user inputs "Videos" in the text box, he would be redirected to a Videos.html
--Else if there isn't a Videos html setup yet, it would refresh the Main.html

Not a search engine.
Would appreciate any and all help.

Andre Difelice
Andre Difelice
18,364 Points

Post your code

Kevin Makepeace
Kevin Makepeace
4,351 Points

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC> <html> <head><meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Test</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="Nor.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="Main.css"> </head> <body> <img src="1.png"> <form> <input class="Log" type="text"> </form> </body> </html>

Stephen Printup
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Stephen Printup
UX Design Techdegree Student 45,252 Points

Hey Kevin-

I want to try and help here, but let me clarify what I think you are saying first. Do you want to execute a search that returns links (href) or music/videos (mp4)? If so, my suggestion would be to learn how functions work using Javascript, JQuery and AJAX (front end development track here on treehouse). Javascript is for interactivity treehouse has videos that will help. Here is a link to a sample video that goes into the search functionality:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/ajax-basics/ajax-and-apis/stage-4-challenge-answer

I hope this is helpful, let me know if you are looking for something else.

-Stephen

1 Answer

Mark Glissmann
Mark Glissmann
7,225 Points
Mark Glissmann
Mark Glissmann
7,225 Points

Kevin you will need to write a Javascript function to achieve your task.

You need to select the input element then retrieve its value. I do not know of a way to do this in HTML.