How to use a HTML form to send visitors to a specific page

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I want to have two dropdown lists (select lists) on my homepage. The user should be sent to mywebsite.com/option1/option2/ when clicking OK.

Option1 is the selected item in the first dropdown list, option2 the selected item in the second one.

I thought this was easy, but didn't find a solution until now.

What I have tried:

 <select>
  <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
  <option value="saab">Saab</option>
  <option value="opel">Opel</option>
  <option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>

Posted 28-Dec-17 15:15pm

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Updated 28-Dec-17 16:40pm

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ThilinaMD · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-28T16:36:00

So you want to generate dynamic links according to user input.

The easiest way is use java script.

html

<select id="first">
  <option value="link1">link1</option>
  <option value="link2">link2</option>
  <option value="link3">link3</option>
  <option value="link4">link4</option>
</select> 
<select id="second">
  <option value="sublink1">sublink1</option>
  <option value="sublink2">sublink2</option>
  <option value="sublink3">sublink3</option>
  <option value="sublink4">sublink4</option>
</select>
<!--call javascript function-->
<button type="button" onclick="getUrl();">Go to link</button>

javascript

<script>
  function getUrl(){
      //get selected value
      var first= document.getElementById('first');
      var second = document.getElementById('second');
      
      var first_val=first.options[first.selectedIndex];
      var second_val=second.options[second.selectedIndex];
    
      //generate new url
      var url=first_val.value+"/"+second_val.value;
      //navigate to new url
      window.location.href=url;
  }
</script>