Question

I have two pages; page1 and page2. page1 holds a form while page2 has some images. I want to enter a sentence into the form on page1 and get the value of that text box on page2.

the form on page1

<form name="input" action="page2.html" method="get">
    <input type="text" name="textbox" id="textbox">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

what would be the proper way to go about this?

Would I use the get method along with the action method to send the value through the url and then extract it using window.location.href then splitting the text after the ? or is there a simpler way of achieving this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Just send it in the query string and read it in page2, as you said.

See this to have an idea of how to read the query string parameter:

How can I get query string values in JavaScript?