如何传递搜索字符串以执行搜索？

Question

again I'm stuck and asking you to help me.

I want to enter a search string in an input-field. The search string should perform a search like https://.../=~searchstring

The textfield:

$("<input id='field-inputSearchString' type='text' name='field_inputSearchString'>").insertAfter('.completed ticket');

I've got two questions here:

1. I guess I need to 'find' the string to pass it to the search link. Is it sth. like this?

    $(function() { var foundin = $('input[id$='field-inputSearchString']:contains(text)'); }); 

2. And how do I pass the text to the link? Have you got an example or link explaining what I'm looking for?

I appreciate every help. Thank you so much in advance.

Answer 1

To get the value of an input field with id you can do

$("#field-inputSearchString").val();

You cannot use :contains because it searches for elements that contains the text.

If you want to pass the string to the href of an anchor tag

var href = $("#anchorID").attr("href");
$("#anchorID").attr("href", href + $("#field-inputSearchString").val());