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Curious redirection problem using location.href

Answer 1

+2 A:

Not sure, but I suppose that, if you don't return false in your onclick handler, the default action of the button is executed -- and that is not redirecting.

The alert freezes the browser long enough so the redirection is made before the control is given back to the default behavior of the button element.

Try using something like this :

<button onclick="GotoPage(); return false;">Go</button>

Or try modifying the function so it returns false :

function GotoPage() { 
    location.href = "http://www.yahoo.com";
    return false;
}

And return,in your onclick handler, what the function returned :

<button onclick="return GotoPage();">Go</button>

BTW : no need for the javascript: part.

Pascal MARTIN 2010-04-25 13:23:44

Pascal,Many thanks! The first option solved the problem (the others don't)!!But I'm still curious about why adding the alert() call makes it work???Anyway, thanks again!Best regards,

Jose M Balaguer 2010-04-25 13:33:08

You're welcome :-) ;;; the alert is preventing the browser from executing the default action of the button element *(at it prevents the function from ending, returning control to its caller)*. location.href, on the other hand, is assigned before the alert, so it's being executed.

Pascal MARTIN 2010-04-25 13:44:49

Answer 2

A:

I believe you should set window.location, not location.href.

function GotoPage() {
    window.location = "http://www.yahoo.com";
}

Jakob Kruse 2010-04-25 13:30:27

Jakob, Thanks!!! but your solution doesn't work... :-(

Jose M Balaguer 2010-04-25 13:40:30

Actually neither. You should specify both that the location object is in the window object (to elliminiate naming conflicts) and that it's the href property that you want to set (as some browsers won't work with assigning the URL to the location object directly). So you should use `window.location.href`.

Guffa 2010-04-25 14:05:51

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