How to pass parameters to destination url using javascript

Question

I am trying to pass a movie id to the url when a movie is clicked on, and retrieve the movie id in the destination page. I know forms do this by default, but I want to accomplish this with an anchor element.

So for example i have this homepage url:

http://127.0.0.1:5500/client/index.html

I click on a movie on the homepage and the movie has an anchor tag which redirects to a different file:

http://127.0.0.1:5500/client/views/movies.html

The movie has an id that I want to be available in the /movies.html page, and the movies url should look something like this:

http://127.0.0.1:5500/client/views/movies.html?movieId=1234

How would I accomplish this using javascript?

Here is the html:

 <div class="card">
    <a href="${'/client/views/movies.html'}" data-src="1234" >
        <img class="img-size" src="${poster_image}" alt="">
    </a>
    <div class="card-body">
       <h6 class="card-title"> ${el.title}</h6>
          <p>${el.release_date}</p>
    </div>
 </div>

You can add the query param in href tag itself

Siddharth
– Siddharth

2020-06-28 21:00:49 +00:00
Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 21:00 — Siddharth
– Siddharth, Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 21:00

AndrewL64 · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-28 21:01:29Z

3

Just add the desired parameter in the anchor tag href itself like this:

 <div class="card">
    <a href="${'/client/views/movies.html?movieId=1234'}" data-src="1234" >
        <img class="img-size" src="${poster_image}" alt="">
    </a>
    <div class="card-body">
       <h6 class="card-title"> ${el.title}</h6>
          <p>${el.release_date}</p>
    </div>
 </div>

answered Jun 28, 2020 at 21:01

AndrewL64

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championq45 Over a year ago

Wow why didn't i think of that. I thought it was going to be complicated and didn't even realize i could do that. This is what fixed it. ` <a href="${/client/views/movies.html?movieId=${el.id}}`. Thanks

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