jQuery anchor preventDefault
<p>Using jQuery, how do I get the value from a textbox and then load a new page based on the value?</p>

<p>For example, lets say the textbox contains "hello" on page1.php, how do I change the default behavior of an anchor tag to now load the following</p>

<p>page2.php?txt=hello</p>

<p>I have the following so far:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    $(document).ready(function(){
    $("a.mylink").click(function(event){
        alert("link clicked");
        event.preventDefault();
    });
});
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>
