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Paramasivan
Paramasivan

Reputation: 791

Reloading the page through jQuery

I want to reload a page only 1 time when the user goes to that page.

I am using the following script:

$(document).ready(function() {
    for (i = 1 ; i <= 1 ; i++) {
    location.reload();
    }
});

But it keeps on reloading the page. Any error with the for loop?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (4)

Sam Greenhalgh
Sam Greenhalgh

Reputation: 6136

As others have mentioned, you'll need some mechanism of maintaining some kind of flag to indicate that the page has been reloaded that persists after reloading.

Common solutions to this would be cookies, url fragments, local storage.

Cookie

if(!(/\breloaded=1/.test(document.cookie))){
    document.cookie = 'reloaded=1';
    location.reload();
}

URL fragment

if(location.hash != '#reloaded'){
    location.hash = '#reloaded';
    location.reload();
}

Local Storage

if (localStorage.getItem('reloaded') != false) {
    localStorage.setItem('reloaded', false);
    location.reload();
}

Upvotes: 1

Mooseman
Mooseman

Reputation: 18891

JavaScript resets every time the page is loaded. Once the page is reloaded, your for loop is history. Here's an alternative using HTML5 Local Storage:

$(document).ready(function() {
    if(localStorage.getItem('reload') != false)
        localStorage.setItem('reload', false);
        location.reload();
    }
});

Upvotes: 3

Connor Wyatt
Connor Wyatt

Reputation: 156

You can set a cookie to be set using jquery when you first load the page and then use an if statement to run the reload if the page hasn't already been reloaded (which will be defined in the cookie) and delete the cookie after.

Upvotes: -1

dfsq
dfsq

Reputation: 193311

You need somehow make page remember that it's has already been loaded before. I would use localStorage/sessionStorage:

$(document).ready(function() {
    if (!localStorage.reloaded) {
        location.reload();
        localStorage.reloaded = true;
    }
});

Upvotes: 2

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