difference between location.href and window.location.href?

saiho.yuen

Hi,

Is anyone know what is the difference between Location.href and
Window.location.href

Thanks you very much:)

Saiho

Jul 23 '05 #1

Martin Honnen

saiho.yuen wrote:
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> Is anyone know what is the difference between Location.href and
> Window.location.href[/color]

Both (Location.href and Window.location.href) will yield a script error,
if you are talking about location.href and window.location.href (notice
the different case of the first letter) then there is no difference in
global scope as you can reference global properties (e.g. those of the
window object) as both
propertyName
or
window.propertyName

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jul 23 '05 #2

Ben Measures

saiho.yuen wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Is anyone know what is the difference between Location.href and
> Window.location.href[/color]

Ignoring the capitalisation errors, there is no difference.

If you specify window.location.href without the 'window.' it is
implicitly referenced.

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Ben M.

Jul 23 '05 #3

kaeli

In article <ncE1d.60335$WH1.1164697@wagner.videotron.net>,
dontwantspam@yahoo.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone know what is the difference between Location.href and
> Window.location.href
>
> Thanks you very much:)
>[/color]

Javascript is case-sensitive.
window.location.href

There's a window object.
The window object has a location object as one of its properties.
The location object has href as a property.

As to the difference between the two, the difference comes up when it's not
really
window.location.href
but more like
top.location.href

You see a lot of references say window.location.href when what they really
mean is ANY window object.

So the following would all do different things in a nested frameset depending
on exactly where they executed:
self.location.href="default.html";
top.location.href="default.html";
parent.location.href="default.html";
top.frames[2].location.href="default.html";
top.opener.location.href="default.html"; // only for popup

I believe most browsers infer the window object as self if it isn't
specified, but I don't know that that is guaranteed. I myself always specify
the full window.location.href, JIC.

HTH
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Jul 23 '05 #4