window.location is a property in JavaScript for getting the current page's location.
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NS_BINDING_ABORTED Javascript window.location.replace()
I'm writing some Javascript code and I'm trying to change the current page as the result of the user clicking a button. I'm using this snippet of code:
window.location.replace("/customer/order/12");
containing the relative URL within my site that I…

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window.onbeforeunload and window.location.href in IE
We are using window.location.href to navigate the user to a page.
Also, we have configured the window.onbeforeunload event to alert users in case there are any unsaved changes.
window.onbeforeunload = confirmBeforeClose;
function…

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Firefox window.parent.location
I've a Html page index.htm which has an iframe to page search.htm
the search.htm has code like this
function executeSearch() {
window.parent.location = "/SearchResults.aspx?t=" + txt_Search.value;
}
this code executed now from…

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Is there any difference with using only location vs using window.location across browsers
I find myself always writing:
console.log(window.location.href);
without even thinking about it. The majority of answers on SO also write it this way. Is there any reason why I can't just write:
location.href
since location is an object at window…

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How to change window.location.href in JavaScript and then execute more JS?
I have code snippent which is executed on click of a link which is as below
cj_redirecturl="/HomeWork/main/load_course";
utility.xhttprw.data(cj_redirecturl,{data:courseid},function(response){
if(response){
…

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JSP or JavaScript equivalent to PHP's $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]?
I've go an absolute URL in my JavaScript that I have hard coded for window.location.
I don't want to have to change this every time I am testing my app. In PHP I would have handled this by testing the $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] variable to find out what…

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Window.location.hash help needed with syntax
My website is available at http://visualise.ca/ and when you load a post by clicking a thumbnail it will loads the post within the page using ajax. When you close the post it uses this code in order to change the url back to http://visualise.ca/…

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Getting error Cannot destructure property 'protocol' of 'window.location' as it is undefined in nextjs application while building it
I am getting the error below in my nextjs application while building it. My nextjs application is configured with typescipt for building reasons though i am using js only.
Build error occurred:
TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'protocol' of…

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How to unit-test a function that calls window.location.href in Angular2
I have this function I need to test:
login(): void {
this.userService.setSessionAndDateOnlogin();
this.loginService.getLogin()
.subscribe(
octopusUrl => window.location.href = octopusUrl);
}
I use the window.location.href to…

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Get root website url in javascript for redirect
I want to redirect to Login page from every page in my website after session timeout.
I try to set window.location to the login page:
var ParentUrl = encodeURIComponent(window.parent.location.href);
document.location.href = "~/Login.appx?ReturnUrl="…

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Jquery: Getting certain url path using window.location
Our url pathname is
www.nicadpower.com/index.com
but we only want to get the pathname after www.nicadpower.com which is
index.com
how can we get index.com using window.location and jquery

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Can't destroy AWS Cognito session from within React application
I'm trying to log out of my application that's using AWS Cognito by calling their logout endpoint. I'm not using the AWS SDK because as far as I can tell, it does not yet cover oauth app integrations and sign in using external federated identity…

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window.location disconnecting websockets
I want to open a download link without opening a blank page (then, I won't be using window.open). Then I'm using window.location.href or window.location.assign. But the problem is that both methods disconnects my websockets connection. How can I…

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electron's remote.getGlobal() returns "undefined" after window.location.replace()
I've been fiddling around with electron's remote module.
In my main-process I've created this variable:
global.storage = {};
My renderer-process is initialised with a file called startup.html.
win.loadURL('file://' + __dirname +…

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Disable UI-Router Interaction with window.location
This is a long shot, but UI-router is so popular, thought maybe someone here would have insight on this issue.
I'm migrating a project to Angular JS. The project consists of a page with several different panels - each of which is downloaded from the…

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