Blank box which opens any URL HTML?

dougguk · 16 May 2006 at 15:38

Hi all,

What I'm looking for is a simple code that will simply display a box on a page which will open the URL that someone types into it in a new window.

So a blank box and a button that says "Launch" or something and it opens a website that you type in to the box in a new window!

Could some clever person provide a bit of code that does this please

Cheers!

robmiller · 16 May 2006 at 16:04

Code:

<form method="get" action="" onsubmit="location.href = document.getElementById('url').value; return false;">
<input type="text" id="url" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

dougguk · 16 May 2006 at 16:07

Cheers! Is there a way to get it to open a new window however rather than reusing the same window? It will be used to point to PDFs to open them in new windows rather than using the same window!

This way people can just type in a different address each time and open multiple windows

MastermindUK · 16 May 2006 at 16:19

Code:

onsubmit="window.open(document.getElementById('url').value); return false;">

would do it I think, not sure about multiple windows though.

dougguk · 16 May 2006 at 17:05

Cool, cheers for that. Applying it now

m0rte · 17 May 2006 at 09:29

not tested but something like-

Have a javascript function to make a new popup window

Code:

<script language="javascript">
 function popupWin(url) 
{
newWin = window.open(url, 'New','toolbar=1,scrollbars=1,location=1,statusbar=1,menubar=1,resizable=1');
}
</script>

Then a button to fire it

Code:

<form>
<input type="text" id="url"><br  />
<input type="button" id="submit" onClick="Javascript: popupWin(document.getElementById('url').value;)">
</form>

Not tested but should do the job

Edit: oops, this is just the long version of what MastermindUK said but with more options to customize the popup window