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JavaScript: Navigate to a new URL without replacing the current page in the history (not window.location)

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Strange. I guess you could use a hyperlink, then trigger click().

Matt 2010-02-24 18:06:42

Answer 2

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Use location.href instead of location.

Robusto 2010-02-24 18:11:29

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You could use window.location.assign(URL).

Satyajit 2010-02-24 18:12:24

Nope, same result.

noah 2010-02-24 20:23:02

Answer 4

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I'm not seeing that behavior in Firefox 3.6. Following your example, from stackoverflow.com I went to google.com, then from there I used the Firebug console window to set window.location = 'http://facebook.com'. Once there, all three were in my browser history..

m4olivei 2010-02-24 18:12:48

I agree, even on this site only.. click another link, then in firebug console, type "location = '/';" and then press back (takes you to the second page). Compare that to the same actions, but typing "location.replace('/');" (takes you to this page).

gregmac 2010-02-24 18:19:04

Yea, Firebug doesn't trigger it.

noah 2010-02-24 20:22:01

Answer 5

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This is just a hack and I don't know if it will work. Try window.history.back(1) after you have set the URL using window.location = URL;

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Raja

Raja 2010-02-24 20:36:13

Answer 6

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setTimeout is the answer.

$(div).html('<script...> setTimeout(function() { window.location = url; },10); </script>');

Doesn't have this problem. It must have something to do with the way jQuery executes inline scripts (by creating a script tag in the head element).

noah 2010-02-24 20:50:18

Do you have to have to be inserting dynamic script tags from the `href` of an `A` tag like that? I wonder if there is a different, less complicated way that you could do this that would also avoid the problem.

Renesis 2010-02-24 22:23:10

??? Why are you using javascript, to insert html, which has a script tag containing javascript, which runs a timer to run the real javascript code? Why don't you replace the whole thing with just "window.location = url;" ? YES, you CAN turn left 3 times to make a right... but you can also just turn right.

gregmac 2010-02-24 23:56:59

Yes actually. The use case is dynamically loading HTML content, but if the load fails, we need to redirect, and the logic for determining where to redirect to is on the server so this is actually the simplest way to accomplish it.

noah 2010-02-25 20:06:59

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