html onsubmit doesn't start Javascript function

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I have a form with a Javascript populated collection of cacheable items, and a text box that is an id that is entered by a user. I want on the form submit to redirect the user to the JSON response from the rest call. The rest URL works when I enter directly into the browser however transferring that to html and js is beating me. The form on submit does nothing when the submit is clicked.

My form -

<form id="query" action="get" onsubmit="return restLink();">
  <td>
    <select id="selectCacheableItemType">
      <option>Select a Cacheable Item Type</option>
    </select>
  </td>
  <td>
    Cacheable item Id: <input type="text" id="cacheableId"><br>
  </td>
</form>

The cacheable item type is populated here -

window.onload = function cacheItemType(){
    var select = document.getElementById("selectCacheableItemType");
    var options = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6","7"];
    for(var i = 0; i < options.length; i++) {
        var opt = options[i];
        var el = document.createElement("option");
        el.textContent = opt;
        el.value = opt;
        select.appendChild(el);
    }
};

and the restLink() function is -

function restLink() {   
    cachetypename = document.getElementyId('selectCacheableItemType').getValue();
    cacheid = document.getElementyId('cacheableId').getValue();
    return window.location.href = "http://localhost:8080/rest/query/"+ cachetypename + "/" + cacheid;
}

Any help is much appreciated.

asked 1 min ago

Chris Kerr

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html onsubmit doesn't start Javascript function