text box nav "menu"

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This can't be as difficult as I'm making it out to be...... but it's driving me CRAZY.

I hope someone can help.......... PLEASE.

The basic "gist" of what I'm trying to do is have a basic web page with a text box and an iframe. If someone types, for instance, 1234 into the text box and hits the "Go" button, into the iframe is loaded the page http://www.URL.com/1234.htm

ANY help would be so gratefully appreciated.

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half way there?

<form action="target="#">
Please enter your transaction number and click the "Go" button!
<br />
<input name="the_url" type="text" value="" size="25" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="button" value="Go!" onClick="top.iframe1.location=this.form.the_url.value" />
</form>

Partially works, but I have to type in the entire URL (http://URL.com/1234.htm)........ can anyone tell me how to "hide" the "http://URL.com/" part and the ".htm" part?

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got it figured out..........