Difference between window location href and top location href

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Can Anyone tell me the difference between window location href and top location href    And also where to use which one    And which one will be better when redirecting after an ajax call in mvc

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top refers to the window object which contains all the current frames   father of the rest of the windows    window is the current window   http   www howtocreate co uk tutorials javascript browserinspecific  so top location href can contain the  master  page link containing all the frames  while window location href just contains the  current  page link

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window location href returns the location of the current page   top location href  which is an alias of window top location href  returns the location of the topmost window in the window hierarchy   If a window has no parent  top is a reference to itself  in other words  window     window top    top is useful both when you re dealing with frames and when dealing with windows which have been opened by other pages   For example  if you have a page called test html with the following script   var newWin window open  about blank   test   width 100 height 100    newWin document write   lt script gt alert top location href   lt  script gt       The resulting alert will have the full path to test html  ndash  not about blank  which is what window location href would return   To answer your question about redirecting  go with window location assign url

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The first one adds an item to your history in that you can  or should be able to  click  Back  and go back to the current page   The second replaces the current history item so you can t go back to it   See window location    assign url   Load the document at the provided URL  replace url   Replace the current document with the one at the provided URL  The difference from the assign   method is that after using replace   the current page will not be saved in session history  meaning the user won t be able to use the Back button to navigate to it      window location href   url    is favoured over   window location   url

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top object makes more sense inside frames  Inside a frame  window refers to current frame s window while top refers to the outermost window that contains the frame s   So   window location href    somepage html   means loading somepage html inside the frame   top location href    somepage html   means loading somepage html in the main browser window   Two other interesting objects are self and parent

[javascript] Difference between window.location.href and top.location.href

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