I've been trying to create a simple form where you input a Feed Url and it will display the contents on the HTML page. I'm using "https://jquery-plugins.net/rss" as a testing template for the feedUrl, as it works as normal.

Here was the guide I used in order to put the FeedEk elements in place : https://jquery-plugins.net/FeedEk/FeedEk.html

Here is the code I've come up with so far:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="FeedEk.min.js"></script>  
<form method="post" id="form">
    <span>Paste the feed url here:</span>
    <input type="text" id="rssUrl">
    <input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

<div id="divRss">
    <script>
        var form = document.getElementById("form");
        var url = document.getElementById("rssUrl");
        form.onsubmit = function()
        {
            $('#divRss').FeedEk({
                FeedUrl : url,
                MaxCount : 16,
            });
        }
    </script>
</div>

I think the problem may lie in the submit, since it keeps reloading the page when I submit, I'm not sure though. How should I go about making a user submit work?

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Edit: CBroe offered an alternative solution which ended up making the code work the way I intended it to.

Here's what I changed in the HTML :

<input type="submit" value="submit">

to

<input type="button" value="enter" id="enter">

and in the javascript

    <script>
        var form = document.getElementById("form");
        form.enter.onclick = function()
        {
            var url = document.getElementById("rssUrl").value;
            $('#divRss').FeedEk({
                FeedUrl : url,
                MaxCount : 16,
            });
        }
    </script>

The change ended up yielding exactly what I wanted!

I also believe that Rory's answer is a good one if you still want to have a submit button, while preventing the page from resetting itself, and thank you for mentioning that I've been using an outdated version of it, and giving us a more optimized solution to the problem!

I will now mark this problem as solved, thank you for the help everyone!