Navigate To Another Page With Post Request Through Link

When working on web development projects, knowing how to navigate to another page with a POST request through a link can be a valuable skill. This technique allows you to send data securely without exposing it in the URL, which is especially useful when dealing with sensitive information or when you have a large amount of data to send. In this article, we will guide you through the process of achieving this in a simple and effective way.

To start with, let's understand the basics of a POST request. In web development, there are mainly two types of requests: GET and POST. While GET requests are used to retrieve data from a server, POST requests are used to send data to a server to create or update a resource. When navigating to another page with a POST request through a link, we need to emulate this behavior without using a traditional form.

To achieve this, we can use JavaScript to create a form dynamically and submit it when the link is clicked. Here's how you can implement this:

1. Create an anchor element () with an onclick event that triggers a JavaScript function.
2. In the JavaScript function, create a form element () and set its method attribute to "POST" and its action attribute to the URL of the destination page.
3. Add hidden input fields to the form to include the data you want to send.
4. Append the form to the document body and submit it programmatically.

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function submitForm() {
  const form = document.createElement('form');
  form.method = 'POST';
  form.action = 'destination-page-url';

  const input1 = document.createElement('input');
  input1.type = 'hidden';
  input1.name = 'key1';
  input1.value = 'value1';
  form.appendChild(input1);

  const input2 = document.createElement('input');
  input2.type = 'hidden';
  input2.name = 'key2';
  input2.value = 'value2';
  form.appendChild(input2);

  document.body.appendChild(form);
  form.submit();
}