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

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());