window location href doesn t redirect

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I know this is a question much discussed but I can t figure out why it does not work for me   This is my function   function ShowComments      alert  fired     var movieShareId   document getElementById  movieId       alert  found div    movieShareId textContent    movieShareId innerText      alert  redirect location   comments aspx id     movieShareId textContent    movieShareId innerText          window location href     comments aspx id     movieShareId textContent    movieShareId innerText         var newLocation   window location     alert  full location      window location        If I have the alerts uncommented or if I have Mozilla s bugzilla open it works fine  otherwise it does not redirect to the other page   Any ideas why

User · Answer

In case anyone was a tired and silly as I was the other night whereupon I came across many threads espousing the different methods to get a javascript redirect, all of which were failing...

You can't use window.location.replace or document.location.href or any of your favourite vanilla javascript methods to redirect a page to itself.

So if you're dynamically adding in the redirect path from the back end, or pulling it from a data tag, make sure you do check at some stage for redirects to the current page. It could be as simple as:

if(window.location.href == linkout)
{
    location.reload();
}
else
{
    window.location.href = linkout;
}

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I ll give you one nice function for this problem   function url redirect url       var X   setTimeout function            window location replace url           return true        300        if  window location   url            clearTimeout X           return true        else           if  window location href   url                clearTimeout X               return true           else              clearTimeout X               window location replace url               return true                      return false       This is universal working solution for the window location problem  Some browsers go into problem with window location href and also sometimes can happen that window location fail  That s why we also use window location replace   for any case and timeout for the  last try

User · Answer

Make sure you re not sending a     at the end of your URL  In my case  that was preventing window location href from working

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

window location href wasn t working in Android  I cleared cache in Android Chrome and it works fine  Suggest trying this first before getting involved in various coding

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Though it is very old question  i would like to answer as i faced same issue recently and got solution from here -   http   www codeproject com Questions 727493 JavaScript-document-location-href-not-working Solution   document location href    Your url  true    This worked for me

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Some parenthesis are missing   Change   window location href     comments aspx id     movieShareId textContent    movieShareId innerText          to   window location     comments aspx id      movieShareId textContent    movieShareId innerText           No priority is given to the    compared to the     Remove also everything after the window location assignation   this code isn t supposed to be executed as the page changes   Note  you don t need to set location href  It s enough to just set location

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window location replace is the best way to emulate a redirect   function ShowComments        var movieShareId   document getElementById  movieId        window location replace   comments aspx id      movieShareId textContent    movieShareId innerText              More information about why window location replace is the best javascript redirect can be found right here

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From this answer    window location href not working  you just need to add   return false    at the bottom of your function

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In my case it is working as expected for all browsers after setting time interval   setTimeout function   document location href    myNextPage html    100

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