I've been learning front end web development and thought of challenging myself with an exercise, I have created a simple HTML form
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form">
<label for="name">Name:</label><br>
<input type="text" id="name"><br>
<label for="pass">Password:</label><br>
<input type="password" id="pass"><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<script src="example.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
and for the JavaScript, this is what I'm using
const form = document.getElementById('form')
const formName = document.getElementById('name')
const formPass = document.getElementById('pass')
const yourName = "John"
const yourPass = "Doe"
form.addEventListener('submit', function(e){
e.preventDefault()
if (formName.value == yourName && formPass.value == yourPass) {
document.querySelector('loginName').innerHTML = yourName;
window.location.href = 'login.html';
}
})
What I want here is that after hitting submit, the webpage should redirect to the login .html which only consists of
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="loginName"></h1>
</body>
</html>
After redirecting to login.html I also want it to add the variable yourName from JavaScript to the h1 tag, but this clearly doesn't work.
add <script src="example.js"></script> to your login.html file and change example.js to
const formName = document.getElementById('name')
const formPass = document.getElementById('pass')
const yourName = "John"
const yourPass = "Doe"
if(document.URL.indexOf('example.html') != -1){
form.addEventListener('submit', function(e){
e.preventDefault()
if (formName.value == yourName && formPass.value == yourPass) {
window.location.href = 'login.html';
}
})
}
if(document.URL.indexOf('login.html') != -1){
document.getElementById('loginName').innerHTML = yourName;
}