window location href not working

Question

My website is http   www collegeanswerz com    I m using rails   The code is for searching for colleges   I want the user to be able to type in the colleges name  click enter  and be taken to the url  rather than seeing the search results  if the user types in the name properly   if not I want to show the search results    I m using  a  and  stackoverflow com  as placeholders while I try to get it to work   I m using window location href based on this  How to redirect to another webpage in JavaScript jQuery   javascript      search text   submit function         if      search field   val       a                 window location href    http   stackoverflow com           alert  worked                layout file   lt    form tag   search    method   gt   get    id   gt   search text    class   gt   form search   do -  gt        lt div id  search  gt   lt    search field tag  search  params  search    placeholder   gt   enter college    id   gt   search field    class   gt   input-medium search-query    gt  lt  div gt    lt   end -  gt    static pages controller rb  def search    colleges   College search params  search   end   The alert is working  which tells me that the things inside the if statement should be being executed   But it s taking me to the normal search results instead of stackoverflow com   Why is this

User · Answer

Try this    var url    http   stackoverflow com         location  attr  href  url      Or you can do something like this      similar behavior as an HTTP redirect window location replace  http   stackoverflow com        similar behavior as clicking on a link window location href    http   stackoverflow com     and add a return false at the end of your function call

User · Answer

The browser is still submitting the form after your code runs   Add return false  to the handler to prevent that

User · Answer

if anyone faced problem even after using return false    then use the below   setTimeout function   document location href    index php   500

User · Answer

Please check you are using    not    by-mistake   like below  Wrong  http   stackoverflow com   Right  http   stackoverflow com

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