Question

So I’m trying to force urls entered into the search box to have “http://” forced on to them because the url doesn’t work without it.

var mySite = $('.search').val();

if (mySite -="http://"){
   alert('http://').append(mySite);
};

Sorry if this code is horribly wrong I’m just trying to hash out the idea here.

Answer 1

If you want case-insensitivity

$('.search').val(function(_,oldValue){
  return /^http:/i.test(oldValue) ? oldValue : ('http://'+oldValue);
});

…Or you can just

$('.search').val(function(_,oldValue){
  return oldValue.indexOf('http:') ? ('http://'+oldValue) : oldValue;
});