html button v.s. html submit?

Question

I have an input text box and a search submit button, and when user clicks the Search submit button, I want to redirect user to url http://testsearch/results.aspx?k=<

Answer 1

You can even use the submit button this way:

Semantically submit button is used to submit forms not redirect pages. You should use normal button type for this. However as i showed you can use the submit button too but that is not semantic i think.

The below line prevents the form from being submitted.

return false;

That is what you are missing in your code :)

Thanks