window location href and window open methods in JavaScript

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What is the difference between window location href and window open    methods in JavaScript

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window open is a method  you can open new window  and can customize it  window location href is just a property of the current window

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window open will open a new browser with the specified URL  window location href will open the URL in the window in which the code is called     Note also that window open   is a function on the window object itself whereas window location is an object that exposes a variety of other methods and properties

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There are already answers which describes about window location href property and window open   method  I will go by Objective use  1  To redirect the page to another Use window location href  Set href property to the href of another page  2  Open link in the new or specific window  Use window open    Pass parameters as per your goal  3  Know current address of the page Use window location href  Get value of window location href property  You can also get specific protocol  hostname  hashstring from window location object  See Location Object for more information

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window location href is not a method  it s a property that will tell you the current URL location of the browser  Changing the value of the property will redirect the page  window open   is a method that you can pass a URL to that you want to open in a new window  For example  window location href example  window location href    http   www google com     Will take you to Google   window open   example  window open  http   www google com      This will open Google in a new window    Additional Information  window open   can be passed additional parameters  See  window open tutorial

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window open    will open a new window  whereas window location href will open the new URL in your current window

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The window open will open url in new browser Tab  The window location href will open url in current Tab  instead you can use location   Here is example fiddle  in SO snippets window open doesn t work    x000D   x000D  var url    https   example com   x000D   x000D  function go1     window open url    x000D   x000D  function go2     window location href   url   x000D   x000D  function go3     location   url   x000D   lt div gt Go by  lt  div gt  x000D   lt button onclick  go1    gt window open lt  button gt  x000D   lt button onclick  go2    gt window location href lt  button gt  x000D   lt button onclick  go3    gt location lt  button gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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