Javascript Setting location href versus location

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When would you set location to a URL string versus setting location href   location    http   www stackoverflow com     vs  location href    http   www stackoverflow com     Mozilla Developer Network Reference

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A couple of years ago  location did not work for me in IE and location href did  and both worked in other browsers   Since then I have always just used location href and never had trouble again  I can t remember which version of IE that was

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Just to clarify  you can t do location split       location is an object  not a string  But you can do location href split       because location href is a string

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Like as has been said already  location is an object  But that person suggested using either   But  you will do better to use the  href version   Objects have default properties which  if nothing else is specified  they are assumed   In the case of the location object  it has a property called  href   And by not specifying ANY property during the assignment  it will assume  href  by default   This is all well and fine until a later object model version changes and there either is no longer a default property  or the default property is changed   Then your program breaks unexpectedly   If you mean href  you should specify href

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With TypeScript use window location href as window location is technically an object containing    Properties hash  host  hostname href     lt --- you need this pathname  relative to the host  port  protocol  search    Setting window location will produce a type error  while window location href is of type string   Source

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One difference to keep in mind  though   Let s say you want to build some URL using the current URL  The following code will in fact redirect you  because it s not calling String replace but Location replace   nextUrl   window location replace   step1     step2      The following codes work      cast to string nextUrl    window location     replace   step1     step2        href property nextUrl   window location href replace   step1     step2

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You might set location directly because it s slightly shorter  If you re trying to be terse  you can usually omit the window  too   URL assignments to both location href and location are defined to work in JavaScript 1 0  back in Netscape 2  and have been implemented in every browser since  So take your pick and use whichever you find clearest

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Even if both work  I would use the latter  location is an object  and assigning a string to an object doesn t bode well for readability or maintenance

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