Should both of them reference to same object?
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Yes, they are the same. It's one of the many historical quirks in the browser JS API. Try doing:
window.location === document.location
Matthew Flaschen
2010-03-12 06:36:24
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document.location==window.location returns true
also
document.location.constructor==window.location.constructor is true
Note: Just tested on , Firefox 3.6, Opera 10 and IE6
S.Mark
2010-03-12 06:36:39
Care to explain the reason for downvote?
rahul
2010-03-12 07:51:59
historically, they are not (but didn't downvote)
Christoph
2010-03-12 08:39:44
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window.location is the more reliably consistent of the two, considering older browsers.
Dave Ward
2010-03-12 06:38:31
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The canonical way to get the current location object is window.location (see this MSDN page from 1996 and the W3C draft from 2006).
Compare this to document.location, which originally only returned the current URL as a string (see this page on MSDN). Probably to avoid confusion, document.location was replaced with document.URL (see here on MSDN), which is also part of DOM Level 1.
As far as I know, all modern browsers map document.location to window.location, but I still prefer window.location as that's what I've used since I wrote my first DHTML.
Christoph
2010-03-12 08:37:01