The best way to do a Javascript redirect is with the following code:
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The Javascript variable window.location.href
contains the full URL of the current page. By setting this to something else, the browser immediately is redirected to that page. We can also view the URL of the current page by printing the contents of window.location.href
. For example, the contents of that variable on this page is:
It’s possible to just use window.location
or even shorter location
instead of window.location.href
to set the location. However, these are two different variables when reading them. The variable window.location
is an object and has multiple values, while the variable window.location.href
is a string and contains the URL. So it’s better practice to use the window.location.href
here because it works for both setting and reading the URL location which makes reading code easier too.
Example HTML
Here is an example webpage that will immediately redirect the browser to another location.
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