Refresh page coding

[Stubbo of Oz]

I want to put a link on my web pages to allow the user to click and
refresh the page.

I have seen twqo ways to do this:-

<a href="javascript:location.reload(true)">
<a href="javascript:history.go(0)">

Are they both legitimate?

Is one better than the other?

Thanks for any info.

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Stubbo of Sydney
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[Doug Gunnoe]

On Jan 11, 6:31*pm, Stubbo of Oz <[e-mail]:

I want to put a link on my web pages to allow the user to click and
refresh the page.

I have seen twqo ways to do this:-

<a href="javascript:location.reload(true)">
<a href="javascript:history.go(0)">

Are they both legitimate?

Is one better than the other?

Thanks for any info.

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Stubbo of Sydney
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you could also try

window.location.href = window.location.href

as in

<input type="button" value="Click here to refresh"
onclick="window.location.href = window.location.href" />

I make no promises.

[Randy Webb]

Doug Gunnoe said the following on 1/12/2008 8:28 AM:

On Jan 11, 6:31 pm, Stubbo of Oz <[e-mail]:

>I want to put a link on my web pages to allow the user to click and
refresh the page.

I have seen twqo ways to do this:-

<a href="javascript:location.reload(true)">
<a href="javascript:history.go(0)">

Both are junk.

>Are they both legitimate?

Are they both legitimate junk? Yes.

>Is one better than the other?

Junk is junk.

>Thanks for any info.

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Stubbo of Sydney
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you could also try

window.location.href = window.location.href

....href + "?" + new Date().getTime()

might get you a better reload from the server. Reloading from the cache
is a waste of time.

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Randy
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Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Randy Webb]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said the following on 1/12/2008 4:35 PM:

Randy Webb wrote:

>Doug Gunnoe said the following on 1/12/2008 8:28 AM:

>>On Jan 11, 6:31 pm, Stubbo of Oz <[e-mail]:
I want to put a link on my web pages to allow the user to click and
refresh the page.

I have seen twqo ways to do this:-

<a href="javascript:location.reload(true)">
<a href="javascript:history.go(0)">

Both are junk.
[...]

>>you could also try

window.location.href = window.location.href

...href + "?" + new Date().getTime()

might get you a better reload from the server. Reloading from the cache
is a waste of time.

That is why the `reload' method of Location objects accept `true'
for its first argument which avoids any of the other dirty hacks.

And then you have to hope that the browser, for whatever reason, honors
it. I have yet to see a browser that would reload from the cache using a
date timestamp querystring.

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Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Anthony Levensalor]

On 1/13/2008 6:51 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

Anthony Levensalor wrote:

[snip]

>http://www.w3.org/TR/Window/

It's defined by the W3C as a long standing 'defacto standard',

It isn't.

It is in the W3C link I quoted. That's verbatim, not interpretation. And
all the times you've quoted the W3C drafts as a way to prove your point,
and now they're unacceptable? I'll remember that for the next time you
point to a draft and whine.
[snip]

>DOM level 0 wasn't even a real level, according to the W3C:

You don't say.

You suck at wrong. Too bad, because it's a condition I imagine you find
yourself in nearly perpetually.

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anthony at my pet programmer dot com