redirect page with js function

zeero · Oct 7, 2004

Greets all. How would I have a page automatically submit a function (redirect) to another jsp page?

e.g. hit the first page (html) that has a js function on it, and instead of clicking a button to submit and take you to the next page, just automatically load the page, then redirect you to the second page with the function submitting with it.

LFI · Oct 7, 2004

Well, if by "function submitting" you mean "submitting a form" and the "next page" is the value of the ACTION attribute in the FORM tag, then you merely need to:

<body onload='document.formName.submit();'>
...

Is that what you mean?

--Dave

zeero · Oct 7, 2004

hey dave, this isn't directly related to my question over on the jsp forum btw ^^

right now it's as follows:

-you go to an html page with javascript in it that does a function withe the onclick event.

-then you click a button (triggers event) which sends you to a jsp page that takes the value of the javascript.

instead of clicking a button, I would like the first html page you hit to wait X seconds then send you to a jsp page with the function sent as well. (the js sends a string to the jsp page)

LFI · Oct 7, 2004

Well, this sounds like a form-submit.

On the first page:

<body onload='waitAndSubmit();'>
<form name='form1' action='secondPage.html' method='GET'>
<input type='text' name='textField' value='Value being passed' size='30' />
</form>
</body>

The function referenced in the BODY tag's ONLOAD event is:

var X = 3; //# of seconds to wait
function waitAndSubmit()
{
setTimeout("document.form1.submit()", X*1000)
}

It probably wouldn't hurt to "escape" the value you're sending:

function waitAndSubmit()
{
document.form1.textField.value = escape(document.form1.textField.value); //replaces spaces with %20, for example
setTimeout("document.form1.submit()", X*1000)
}

If your second page is a JSP or ASP, then you can do a POST-method on your form and not worry about the escape(...) function.

'hope that helps.

--Dave

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