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Posted by: mrc333777 Oct 23 2022, 08:12 AM

<p align="center"><font size="5" color="#FF0000">SEARCH</font><br><br>

<font size="3">Enter Name To Search For</font>
<p align="center"><input type="text" id="page" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" onclick="goToPage();" /></a></p><br><br><br><br><br>
</p>

</html>

<script type="">
function goToPage() {
var page = document.getElementById('page').value;
window.location = "http://192.168.0.101/" + page + ".htm";
}
</script>

i have that above and it does most of what i want, but what do i need to add to make it remove the spaces from the name and then check to see if the link exists or not?

Posted by: Christian J Oct 23 2022, 02:12 PM

You could use the trim() method: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_trim_string.asp


I don't know any easy way to do that with javascript (besides trying to load the page, of course).

BTW it's invalid HTML to nest P element inside each other, always close one P before opening another.

Posted by: pandy Oct 23 2022, 06:13 PM

Actually, you don't need to close them since if you don't, the closing tag is implied. But if you do close them you need to do it right.

That said, I also think you *should* close paragraphs, but a validator won't mark it as an error if you don't. The validator will find quite a few errors with the way you've done it though.

Posted by: mrc333777 Oct 23 2022, 06:24 PM

yea, i been adding bits and pieces of tutorials to an existing simple web site i made like 20-30 years ago.
i have no idea how to do html these days

Posted by: CharlesEF Oct 24 2022, 08:24 PM

I've never done this myself but I think you could use Javascripts FileReader API to check if the file exists. At least it might be worth looking into.