using variable in link in javascript

Question

So I've learned that I can use a button to link someone to another page like this:

$("#something").append("<br><center><input type='button' value='Go' onclick='location.href=\"http://www.google.com\"'></center>");

But let's say I wanted to use a variable as the address, I'm not sure how to do that. What I'm trying to do is something like this:

var url = "http://www.google.com";
$("#something").append("<br><center><input type='button' value='Go' onclick='location.href=url'></center>");

Can someone please correct my error? Thanks

Is this really a <center> tag that I see ? use text-align:center or width + margin:auto instead — nicolast
– nicolast, Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 15:47

Adil · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-02 15:31:37Z

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You can concatenate url variable in the string like this,

$("#something").append("<br><center><input type='button' 
value='Go' onclick='location.href=" +url+ "'></center>");

answered Jan 2, 2013 at 15:26

Adil

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2 Comments

Are you missing the escaped quotes (\") around the url?

still seems to not be working... I think it is because I'm missing the escaped quotes, where would I add these?