Why won't window.location load a new page?

Question

This bit of code used to work, and now it doesn't:

var url = myurl +'?id=' + id + '&phase=' + phase;
window.location = url;

Using the IE dev toolbar I've verified that url has a valid url, and window.location returns the new url...the only problem is the page does not reload.

Does anyone know of any reasons for window.location to now actually load a new document when it is assigned to?

Yeah, try printing out the URL manually and see what it actually contains. — tnw, Jul 20 '11 at 15:17
Are you sure that the code is actually executing? Have it pop up an alert just before then or something, and make sure there are no errors too — Adam Batkin, Jul 20 '11 at 15:18
FYI document.location is sometimes readonly and isn't necessarily cross-browser since it's not part of the DOM spec. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/document.location — Jordan, Jul 20 '11 at 15:22
I'm running IE8, and it's a corporate app, so that's all I need to worry about. The code is definitely executing, I stepped through it with the VS Debugger. — IronicMuffin, Jul 20 '11 at 15:48

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '11 at 15:17

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Use window.location.href = url; instead.

answered Jul 20 '11 at 15:17

Nick

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No javascript errors. This was working for me before, and I'm not sure what changed to cause it to stop. – IronicMuffin Jul 20 '11 at 15:48
"This was working for me before, and I'm not sure what changed..." - figure out what changed. It was NOT this code, I'm guessing. – James Jul 20 '11 at 19:13

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '13 at 14:17

Is your JavaScript running the onclick event from an <input> type="button" or type="submit"?

If your button is type="submit" it won't work unless you stop the submission from executing.

I know this is kind of obvious but I didn't see this in the other comments so I might just add to this thread.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

So i just got this same error today, I for some reason couldn't get my page to redirect to google (just for testing purposes). Copied the code directly from another site and it worked, so i tried google.com again - low and behold it didn't work...

I should also mention that i'm trying to redirect a page in an iframe, not the entire webpage.

So I fired up my trusty Max's HTML Beauty++ 2004 and opened my page in that, sure enough it gave me my error:

This content cannot be displayed in a frame

 To help protect the security of information you enter into this  
 website, the publisher of this content does not allow it to be
 displayed in a frame.

The code i Used to get that:

window.location = "http://www.google.com";

It looks like browsers don't display this error, instead they just don't redirect you... Kind of confusing :/

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '13 at 23:59

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I was using jquery, and a similar problem cropped up and I had to resolve it by adding the data-ajax=false attribute to the <a href="... link.

answered Jul 07 '13 at 23:59

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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Thanks to @Senad Meskin.

document.location = url;

worked for me. Any reason why window would stop working?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Jul 20 '11 at 15:19

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No, but document.location is not cross-browser either, since originally it was read-only. You probably won't hit any issues, but you may want to research more on why it isn't running. – Jordan Jul 20 '11 at 15:21

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