HTML: How to create search bar?

Question

I have this search bar:

<div id="tfheader">
    <form id="tfnewsearch" method="get" action="http://mywebsite.com">
            <input type="text" class="tftextinput" name="q" size="21" maxlength="120"><input type="submit" value="search" class="tfbutton">
    </form>
<div class="tfclear"></div>
</div>

It worked great but when I search "keyword", it will redirect to http://mywebsite.com/?q=keyword.

How to redirect to http://mywebsite.com/keyword ? Thank you very much !

possible duplicate of [.htaccess rewrite query string as path](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13003319/htaccess-rewrite-query-string-as-path) — Terry, Dec 20 '14 at 12:53
You need to hook into form submit event: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27409950/how-to-change-form-url-parameter-on-submit/27410081#27410081 After you have done that, you also need to make sure your server can understand this request. — dfsq, Dec 20 '14 at 13:02

baao · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-20T15:46:22.597

You can do it with javascript

<script>
var a = document.getElementById('tfnewsearch');
a.addEventListener('submit',function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var b = document.getElementById('tftextinput').value;
window.location.href = 'http://mywebsite.com/'+b;

});

</script>

and give your input field an ID called tftextinput.

<input type="text" class="tftextinput" id="tftextinput" name="q" size="21" maxlength="120">

I don't really understand why you would like to do this, as it is way more difficult to handle this request server side as it would be to simply handle the $_GET data you will receive when doing a standard form transmission.

EDIT:

Here is the full code:

<div id="tfheader">
    <form id="tfnewsearch" method="get" action="http://www.mywebsite.com">
        <input type="text" class="tftextinput" id="tftextinput" name="q" size="21" maxlength="120"><input type="submit" value="search" class="tfbutton">
    </form>
<div class="tfclear"></div>
</div>

<script>
    var a = document.getElementById('tfnewsearch');
    a.addEventListener('submit',function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var b = document.getElementById('tftextinput').value;
        window.location.href = 'http://mywebsite.com/'+b;

    });

</script>

Hello, it doesn't work. I add javascript and id="tftextinput" but it doesn't work — Ban, Dec 20 '14 at 14:59
@ban I forgot to write e.preventDefault . Put it directly in front of the line window.location.href... — baao, Dec 20 '14 at 15:00

HTML: How to create search bar?

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