[javascript] Adding an onclick function to go to url in JavaScript?

I am using this fancy little JavaScript to highlight a field as the user hovers over it. Could you please tell me if there is a way of adding an onclick function which will act as a link and go to a URL?

<script>
         $(function() {
            $('tr').hover(function() {
                $(this).css('background-color', '#eee');
                $(this).contents('td').css({'border': '0px solid red', 'border-left': 'none', 'border-right': 'none'});
                $(this).contents('td:first').css('border-left', '0px solid red');
                $(this).contents('td:last').css('border-right', '0px solid red');
            },
            function() {
                $(this).css('background-color', '#FFFFFF');
                $(this).contents('td').css('border', 'none');
                $('a#read_message.php').click(function(){ URL(); });
            });
        });
        </script>

Not completely sure I understand the question, but do you mean something like this?

$('#something').click(function() { 
    document.location = 'http://somewhere.com/';
} );

function URL() {
    location.href = 'http://your.url.here';
}

Simply use this

onclick="location.href='pageurl.html';"

In jquery to send a user to a different URL you can do it like this:

$("a#thing_to_click").on('click', function(){
     window.location = "http://www.google.com/";    
});

this way will work too but the above is the newer more correct way to do it these days

$("a#thing_to_click").click(function(e){
         e.preventDefault();
         window.location = "http://www.google.com/";    
});

HTML

<input type="button" value="My Button" 
onclick="location.href = 'https://myurl'" />

MVC

<input type="button" value="My Button" 
onclick="location.href='@Url.Action("MyAction", "MyController", new { id = 1 })'" />

try

location = url;

function url() {_x000D_
    location = 'https://example.com';_x000D_
}

<input type="button" value="Inline" _x000D_
onclick="location='https://example.com'" />_x000D_
_x000D_
<input type="button" value="URL()" _x000D_
onclick="url()" />

If you would like to open link in a new tab, you can:

$("a#thing_to_click").on('click',function(){
    window.open('https://yoururl.com', '_blank');
});

In case you're dealing with <a> tag, and you want to interrupt going to the default href you should use this instead.

Go to default url (yahoo):

<a href="https://yahoo.com" onclick="location.href='https://google.com';"> 

Go to new url (google) onclick:

<a href="https://yahoo.com" onclick="this.href='https://google.com';">

By using this you're interrupting the current browser onclick event and changing href before continuing to default behaviour of <a href='...