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AlterWorld
AlterWorld

Reputation: 429

javascript page refresh in Safari

I am trying figure out how to refresh page in Safari (5.1) using javascript and nothing seems to work.

So far, I have tried,

What is the right way of handling page refresh in Safari?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 23925

Answers (3)

user2979995
user2979995

Reputation: 49

Apparently, Safari on Mac or iOS has a bug with location.reload, so, I've developed this simple cross browser solution taking advantage of the url query string:

function refresh() {
  var url = location.origin;
  var pathname = location.pathname;
  var hash = location.hash;

  location = url + pathname + '?application_refresh=' + (Math.random() * 100000) + hash;
}

Upvotes: 4

alex
alex

Reputation: 490333

You should always use the reload() method from the location object...

window.location.reload();

Set the first argument to true if you want to hard reload (send a new GET request for the page).

Upvotes: 2

Guilhem Hoffmann
Guilhem Hoffmann

Reputation: 962

location.reload(true); // works for safari

If you didn't know already this site, let have a look on it, you will have a lot of example for refreshing page: http://www.quackit.com/javascript/javascript_refresh_page.cfm

Upvotes: 3

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