[thelist] Using Location.href Vs location.replace
Peter-Paul Koch
gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 20 09:40:50 CST 2003
>hi guys
>
>Where is the benefit in using location.replace(url)
>
>as opposed to location.href = url.
location.replace() is useful when you redirect users to another page. If
you'd use location.href and the user would click 'Back', he'd go back to the
redirection page which redirects him forward once again.
Since replace() overwrites the previous entry in the history, this problem
is eliminated.
>AFAIK, usage of .replace is browser-dependant.
So is location.href, but both are very well supported.
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