Question

I have a textbox where the user can enter URL and button named Check link. On clicking button, a new window should be opened with the URL entered by the user. If i enter URL as “http://google.com” then window.open(‘http://google.com’); is working fine but if i enter “www.google.com” then it is appending to the current window url (http://localhost:1234www.google.com) which is not a valid url. How to make this work?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Check & prepend

if (!/^(http:|https:)/i.test(url))
   url = "http://" + url;