If you are calling this function through a submit button. This may be the reason why the browser does not redirect. It will run the code in the function and then submit the page instead of redirect. In this case change the type tag of your button.
pathname and many other properties of location and links reflect only part of the URL: http: //www.example.com/path/to/example.html?param1=2¶m3=4#fragment ^protocol^hostname ^pathname ^search ^hash As you can see, the ?… part of the URL is not part of the pathname; it makes no sense to write a value containing ? to location.pathname, as that part of a URL … Read more
For a URL like http://[www.example.com]:80/search?q=devmo#test hash – returns the part of the URL that follows the # symbol, including the # symbol. You can listen for the hashchange event to get notified of changes to the hash in supporting browsers. Returns: #test href – returns the entire URL. Returns: http://[www.example.com]:80/search?q=devmo#test Read More
This works for me $(‘ul.questions li a’).click(function(event) { event.preventDefault(); $(‘.tab’).hide(); window.location.hash = this.hash; $($(this).attr(‘href’)).fadeIn(‘slow’); }); Check here http://jsbin.com/edicu for a demo with almost identical code
<a href=”#” onClick=”window.open(‘http://www.yahoo.com’, ‘_blank’)”>test</a> Easy as that. Or without JS <a href=”http://yahoo.com” target=”_blank”>test</a>
According to the W3C, they are the same. In reality, for cross browser safety, you should use window.location rather than document.location. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html/browsers.html#dom-location
I always use window.location in my code for two principal reasons: It’s a good habit to avoid global variables whenever possible. Using the window. prefix reminds me that the variable is global and that others aren’t. The nature of Javascript’s scoping allows you to override variables set higher up the scope tree. This means that … Read more
According to the W3C, they are the same. In reality, for cross browser safety, you should use window.location rather than document.location. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html/browsers.html#dom-location
Using window.location.assign(“url”) will just cause a new document to load. Using window.location.replace(“url”) will replace the current document and replace the current History with that URL making it so you can’t go back to the previous document loaded. Reference: http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/javascript/javascript-location-object.html
Try to use: location.reload(true); When this method receives a true value as argument, it will cause the page to always be reloaded from the server. If it is false or not specified, the browser may reload the page from its cache. More info: The location object