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

The problem with appending something to window.location.href is what if you have already done that? You'll just keep appending "?search=..." multiple times. More importantly, it's more complicated than it needs to be.

You're already using jQuery. Why not just do this?

Search

with:

$(function() {
  $("#go").click(function() {
    $("#search").submit();
    return false;
  });
});

and then you don't have to worry about the right URL, encoding, etc.