redirect user to current page with some querystring using javascript

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=textboxva

Answer 1

How about:

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

or

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

Etc...