Navigating to a New URL


The location object is probably best known for enabling you to navigate to a new URL, and we've seen that as long ago as Chapter 4. Here's that example; in this case, we let the user enter a URL and make the browser navigate to that URL when she clicks a button (Listing 04-06.html on the web site):

 <HTML>      <HEAD>          <TITLE>              Navigate to an URL          </TITLE>          <SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">              <!--             function Jump()              {  window.location.href = document.form1.text1.value  }              // -->          </SCRIPT>      </HEAD>      <BODY>          <H1>Navigate to an URL</H1>  <FORM NAME = "form1">   <BR>   <INPUT TYPE = TEXT NAME="text1" SIZE = 80>   <BR>   <BR>   <INPUT TYPE = BUTTON Value="Navigate to URL" ONCLICK="Jump()">   </FORM>  </BODY>  </HTML> 

You can see this script at work in Chapter 4, in Figure 4.7, where the user just has to enter a URL into a text field and click a button to navigate to that URL. This is one of the most powerful aspects of JavaScript, in factthe ability to navigate the browser under programmatic control.



Inside Javascript
Inside JavaScript
ISBN: 0735712859
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 492
Authors: Steve Holzner

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