JavaScript Redirect

JavaScript Redirect (and current URL)

Often you will want to redirect the user to another web page, either on your website or another. This can be easily achieved in JavaScript via the document.location property.

document.location = "http://www.yahoo.com/";

Identify current URL

As document.location is simply a variable, you can retrieve the current URL from it:

var currenturl = document.location

For the exact location, document.location.href can also be used. In addition to href, document.location also has other properties covering the parts of the URL, including "protocol", "host", "hostname", "port", "pathname", "search" and "hash". For example, for http://developertutorials.com:80/, the values are the following:

(blank, no :port in url, http defaults to :80)

href	"http://developertutorials.com/scripts/7/?someparam=somevalue#someid"
protocol	"http:"
host	"developertutorials.com"
hostname	"developertutorials.com"
port
pathname	"/scripts/7/"
search	?someparam=somevalue
hash	#someid

When working with these, however, it is important not to rely entirely on them as they

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