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dgivoni
dgivoni

Reputation: 555

document.location does not change the webpage in IE9?

I am trying to redirect to a different page in IE9 (9.0.3).

When I try to get/set document.location, or document.location.href, or window.location/window.location.href, I'm unable to do so. It fails without giving any errors.

I've tried to check whether the document and windows objects are set, and they are, so I have no idea why the location object is "missing".

I tried getting the document.URL and that works fine, but it's read-only.

Anyone know what the problem is or how to achieve this in a cross-browser way?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13444

Answers (5)

denmark dinga
denmark dinga

Reputation: 89

I was also experiencing the same problem but found that adding 

window.event.returnValue = false;

above line in the javascript before the redirection resolved the problem.

Upvotes: 8

Gregory Bolkenstijn
Gregory Bolkenstijn

Reputation: 10201

You should use an absolute URL:

var url = '/section/page/';
var host = window.location.hostname;
window.location = 'http://' + host + url;

Where url is the relative path to your page.

Upvotes: 0

Sudhir Bastakoti
Sudhir Bastakoti

Reputation: 100175

Cache may be the reason, try:

location.href='something.php?tmp=' + Date.parse(new Date())

Hope it helps

Upvotes: 0

Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 3603

Perhaps your IE9 has some security restrictions in place that prevent JavaScript from directing URL's. window.location.href = "" should work normally on IE9.

Upvotes: 1

Viruzzo
Viruzzo

Reputation: 3025

See this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/iewebdevelopment/thread/c864ae63-66f6-4656-bcae-86b0018d70c9

Apparently it's a caching bug, you can solve it by appending a timestamp to the destination URL (that is, using a "unique" URL every time).

Upvotes: 1

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