What's the preferred method to use to change the location of the current web page using JavaScript? I've seen both window.navigate and document.location used. Are there any differences in behavior? Are there differences in browser implementations?
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window.location.href = 'URL';
is the standard implementation for changing the current window's location.
James Skidmore
2009-06-04 01:53:01
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There really isn't a difference; there are about 5 different methods of doing it. However, the ones I see most often are document.location and window.location because they're supported by all major browsers. (I've personally never seen window.navigate used in production code, so maybe it doesn't have very good support?)
musicfreak
2009-06-04 01:56:37
document.location doesn't work in all browsers. window.location does.
Philippe Leybaert
2009-06-09 19:38:53
Hmm, works for me. What browser does it not work in?
musicfreak
2009-06-09 19:55:26
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I'd go with window.location = "http://...";. I've been coding cross-browser JavaScript for a few years, and I've never experienced problems using this approach.
window.navigate and window.location.href seems a bit odd to me.
roosteronacid
2009-06-04 01:58:30
window.location works, but it's technically incorrect because "location" is an object.
James Skidmore
2009-06-04 02:21:46
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document.location is a (deprecated but still present) read-only string property, replaced by document.url.
location='url path' is the simplest expression to open a new page in the same window.
kennebec
2009-06-04 04:34:38