hello forums.
i have small problem im creating a simple page (no php ) just javascript and html.

i have order.html which has a list of items.
and then when you click the drop down menu it will automatically display the price of the item depending on the quantity on a textbox.

now i have form.htm
i have the values name,address,ammount.

now how can i pass the value of the textbox with the price to the form.htm so i can subtract them?
any help? thanks!

There are many ways of doing this.Once you submit a form with GET method then use one of these methods:-

  • Split the URL by searching for "?" and then take 2nd element of array and then split it by "&".Now you have query parameters.Now split the resultant data by "=" and decodeURIComponent.

    var queryName = decodeURIComponent(queryItem[0]);
    var queryValue = decodeURIComponent(queryItem[1]);

  • Use "location.search" to get query parameters.then store data in JSON format.

    var match,
        pl     = /\+/g,  // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space
        search = /([^&=]+)=?([^&]*)/g,
        decode = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(pl, " ")); },
        query  = window.location.search.substring(1);
    
    var urlParams = {};
    while (match = search.exec(query))
       urlParams[decode(match[1])] = decode(match[2]);
    

This could easily be improved upon to handle array-style query strings too. An example of this is here, but since array-style parameters aren't defined in RFC 3986 I won't pollute this answer with the source code.

Although another alternative but have you any reason why you can't parse query parameters????

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