title: Linking Autocomplete Dropdown to New Page Based On Result
body: <p>I am having an issue with a dropdown I am trying to incorporate into a website. The goal of the dropdown is to autocomplete with a dropdown when the user inputs a country, then either pressing 'enter' or submit, the user will be taken to the specific countries page (ie. United States will go to 'parking/usa/united-states.html')</p>
  
  <p>PHP is not my specialty, so I attempted to just link the  to the new page without pressing submit, but I couldn't get the 'value' element to not show in the dropdown. So any help would be greatly appreciated, whether linking through the dropdown or through PHP. Here is the code I have so far.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style&gt;
  * {
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }
  
  body {font: 16px Arial;}
  
  /*the container must be positioned relative:*/
  .autocomplete {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
  }
  
  input {
    border: 1px solid transparent;
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
    padding: 10px;
    font-size: 16px;
  }
  
  input[type=text] {
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
    width: 100%;
  }
  
  input[type=submit] {
    background-color: DodgerBlue;
    color: #fff;
    cursor: pointer;
  }
  
  .autocomplete-items {
    position: absolute;
    border: 1px solid #d4d4d4;
    border-bottom: none;
    border-top: none;
    z-index: 99;
    /*position the autocomplete items to be the same width as the container:*/
    top: 100%;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
  }
  
  .autocomplete-items div {
    padding: 10px;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: #fff; 
    border-bottom: 1px solid #d4d4d4; 
  }
  
  /*when hovering an item:*/
  .autocomplete-items div:hover {
    background-color: #e9e9e9; 
  }
  
  /*when navigating through the items using the arrow keys:*/
  .autocomplete-active {
    background-color: DodgerBlue !important; 
    color: #ffffff; 
  }
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-----------------------------SEARCH BOX-----------------------------------&gt;
  &lt;form autocomplete="off" action="/action_page.php"&gt;
    &lt;div class="autocomplete" style="width:300px;"&gt;
      &lt;input id="myInput" type="text" name="myCountry" placeholder="Country"&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;!-----------------------------SEARCH BOX-----------------------------------&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
  function autocomplete(inp, arr) {
    /*the autocomplete function takes two arguments,
    the text field element and an array of possible autocompleted values:*/
    var currentFocus;
    /*execute a function when someone writes in the text field:*/
    inp.addEventListener("input", function(e) {
        var a, b, i, val = this.value;
        /*close any already open lists of autocompleted values*/
        closeAllLists();
        if (!val) { return false;}
        currentFocus = -1;
        /*create a DIV element that will contain the items (values):*/
        a = document.createElement("DIV");
        a.setAttribute("id", this.id + "autocomplete-list");
        a.setAttribute("class", "autocomplete-items");
        /*append the DIV element as a child of the autocomplete container:*/
        this.parentNode.appendChild(a);
        /*for each item in the array...*/
        for (i = 0; i &lt; arr.length; i++) {
          /*check if the item starts with the same letters as the text field value:*/
          if (arr[i].substr(0, val.length).toUpperCase() == val.toUpperCase()) {
            /*create a DIV element for each matching element:*/
            b = document.createElement("DIV");
            /*make the matching letters bold:*/
            b.innerHTML = "&lt;strong&gt;" + arr[i].substr(0, val.length) + "&lt;/strong&gt;";
            b.innerHTML += arr[i].substr(val.length);
            /*insert a input field that will hold the current array item's value:*/
            b.innerHTML += "&lt;input type='hidden' value='" + arr[i] + "'&gt;";
            /*execute a function when someone clicks on the item value (DIV element):*/
            b.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
                /*insert the value for the autocomplete text field:*/
                inp.value = this.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value;
                /*close the list of autocompleted values,
                (or any other open lists of autocompleted values:*/
                closeAllLists();
            });
            a.appendChild(b);
          }
        }
    });
    /*execute a function presses a key on the keyboard:*/
    inp.addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
        var x = document.getElementById(this.id + "autocomplete-list");
        if (x) x = x.getElementsByTagName("div");
        if (e.keyCode == 40) {
          /*If the arrow DOWN key is pressed,
          increase the currentFocus variable:*/
          currentFocus++;
          /*and and make the current item more visible:*/
          addActive(x);
        } else if (e.keyCode == 38) { //up
          /*If the arrow UP key is pressed,
          decrease the currentFocus variable:*/
          currentFocus--;
          /*and and make the current item more visible:*/
          addActive(x);
        } else if (e.keyCode == 13) {
          /*If the ENTER key is pressed, prevent the form from being submitted,*/
          e.preventDefault();
          if (currentFocus &gt; -1) {
            /*and simulate a click on the "active" item:*/
            if (x) x[currentFocus].click();
          }
        }
    });
    function addActive(x) {
      /*a function to classify an item as "active":*/
      if (!x) return false;
      /*start by removing the "active" class on all items:*/
      removeActive(x);
      if (currentFocus &gt;= x.length) currentFocus = 0;
      if (currentFocus &lt; 0) currentFocus = (x.length - 1);
      /*add class "autocomplete-active":*/
      x[currentFocus].classList.add("autocomplete-active");
    }
    function removeActive(x) {
      /*a function to remove the "active" class from all autocomplete items:*/
      for (var i = 0; i &lt; x.length; i++) {
        x[i].classList.remove("autocomplete-active");
      }
    }
    function closeAllLists(elmnt) {
      /*close all autocomplete lists in the document,
      except the one passed as an argument:*/
      var x = document.getElementsByClassName("autocomplete-items");
      for (var i = 0; i &lt; x.length; i++) {
        if (elmnt != x[i] &amp;&amp; elmnt != inp) {
          x[i].parentNode.removeChild(x[i]);
        }
      }
    }
    /*execute a function when someone clicks in the document:*/
    document.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
        closeAllLists(e.target);
    });
  }
  
  /*An array containing all the country names in the world:*/
  var countries = ["Afghanistan","Albania","Algeria","Andorra","Angola","Anguilla","Antigua &amp; Barbuda","Argentina","Armenia","Aruba","Australia","Austria","Azerbaijan","Bahamas","Bahrain","Bangladesh","Barbados","Belarus","Belgium","Belize","Benin","Bermuda","Bhutan","Bolivia","Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina","Botswana","Brazil","British Virgin Islands","Brunei","Bulgaria","Burkina Faso","Burundi","Cambodia","Cameroon","Canada","Cape Verde","Cayman Islands","Central Arfrican Republic","Chad","Chile","China","Colombia","Congo","Cook Islands","Costa Rica","Cote D Ivoire","Croatia","Cuba","Curacao","Cyprus","Czech Republic","Denmark","Djibouti","Dominica","Dominican Republic","Ecuador","Egypt","El Salvador","Equatorial Guinea","Eritrea","Estonia","Ethiopia","Falkland Islands","Faroe Islands","Fiji","Finland","France","French Polynesia","French West Indies","Gabon","Gambia","Georgia","Germany","Ghana","Gibraltar","Greece","Greenland","Grenada","Guam","Guatemala","Guernsey","Guinea","Guinea Bissau","Guyana","Haiti","Honduras","Hong Kong","Hungary","Iceland","India","Indonesia","Iran","Iraq","Ireland","Isle of Man","Israel","Italy","Jamaica","Japan","Jersey","Jordan","Kazakhstan","Kenya","Kiribati","Kosovo","Kuwait","Kyrgyzstan","Laos","Latvia","Lebanon","Lesotho","Liberia","Libya","Liechtenstein","Lithuania","Luxembourg","Macau","Macedonia","Madagascar","Malawi","Malaysia","Maldives","Mali","Malta","Marshall Islands","Mauritania","Mauritius","Mexico","Micronesia","Moldova","Monaco","Mongolia","Montenegro","Montserrat","Morocco","Mozambique","Myanmar","Namibia","Nauro","Nepal","Netherlands","Netherlands Antilles","New Caledonia","New Zealand","Nicaragua","Niger","Nigeria","North Korea","Norway","Oman","Pakistan","Palau","Palestine","Panama","Papua New Guinea","Paraguay","Peru","Philippines","Poland","Portugal","Puerto Rico","Qatar","Reunion","Romania","Russia","Rwanda","Saint Pierre &amp; Miquelon","Samoa","San Marino","Sao Tome and Principe","Saudi Arabia","Senegal","Serbia","Seychelles","Sierra Leone","Singapore","Slovakia","Slovenia","Solomon Islands","Somalia","South Africa","South Korea","South Sudan","Spain","Sri Lanka","St Kitts &amp; Nevis","St Lucia","St Vincent","Sudan","Suriname","Swaziland","Sweden","Switzerland","Syria","Taiwan","Tajikistan","Tanzania","Thailand","Timor L'Este","Togo","Tonga","Trinidad &amp; Tobago","Tunisia","Turkey","Turkmenistan","Turks &amp; Caicos","Tuvalu","Uganda","Ukraine","United Arab Emirates","United Kingdom","United States of America","Uruguay","Uzbekistan","Vanuatu","Vatican City","Venezuela","Vietnam","Virgin Islands (US)","Yemen","Zambia","Zimbabwe"];
  
  /*initiate the autocomplete function on the "myInput" element, and pass along the countries array as possible autocomplete values:*/
  autocomplete(document.getElementById("myInput"), countries);
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>