I am trying to detect if the user enters something on a webpage hosted by golang but every time the user clicks the button and submits the form it just redirects to a different page (I am hosting on localhost:8080 and it redirects to localhost:8080/text). I am pretty sure this is because the form action is set to "/text" but if I remove that the golang handlefunc is never run. Here is what I have so far:
package main
import (
"log"
"net/http"
"fmt"
)
func main()() {
//runs server
fs := http.FileServer(http.Dir("./"))
http.Handle("/", fs)
log.Println("Listening...")
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
//detects user input and calls function
http.HandleFunc("/text", textGetter)
}
func textGetter (w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) () {
r.ParseForm()
text := r.PostFormValue("text")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "this: %s", text)
fmt.Print(" was written in the text box")
}
and this html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>hello</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./stylesheet.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Write something bellow</h1>
<form class="userText" action="/text" method="post">
<input type="text" name="textbox" id="textBox" value="" placeholder="type something here">
<input type="submit" value="text" name="button" id="button" onclick="thank(message.value)">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Can someone tell me what's wrong?
