Please help: Reload window with new url problem :confused:

I tried changing so much, but I got stuck. It works when I comment out window.location and leave just alert. It alerts me fine with correct url. It just does not want to open that url!

You can see the actual attempt here: http://ronimarinkovic.com/dina/location.html

Code I'm using is:

function convertURL() { 
  var url = document.getElementById('start').value; 
  if (url=='') { alert('Enter Starting point.'); return false; } 
  var final_url; 
  final_url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr='+ url +'&daddr=43.26292335379714,16.65346437622564';  
  //window.location = final_url; 
  //alert(final_url); 
  window.location.replace( final_url );
} 

Code (markup):

<form name="SearchForm" action="" onsubmit="return convertURL(this);"> 
<label id="label1">Get directions from (city, country) </label>
<input id="start" name="text1" type="text" /> to Bol apartments Dina 
<input id="directions" name="Button1" type="submit" value="Get Directions" />
</form>

Code (markup):

 

try

window.location.href=final_url

 

tried... and tried again and again...
window.location
window.location.href
window.location.open
window.location.replace

Confusing is that when I leave alert, it alerts me with proper ly created url, and when I want to open that url it just adds ?text1=Padova%2CItaly&Button1=Get+Directions arguments to parent url!?!?!

 

Ahh, your form is submitted. Try this:

function convertURL() { 
  var url = document.getElementById('start').value; 
  if (url=='') { alert('Enter Starting point.'); return false; } 
  var final_url; 
  final_url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr='+ url +'&daddr=43.26292335379714,16.65346437622564';  
  //window.location = final_url; 
  //alert(final_url); 
  window.location.href= final_url ;
  return false;
}

Code (markup):

I didn't test this code, but something like this should work.

 

Wow! Worked like a charm
Thank you so much for taking time to help.