Access to attributes of location object

[daniel.degasperi@…]

The following code worked with jQuery Versions <= 1.4.2:

$(location).attr('href', 'blank.php');
$(location).attr('href');

With Version 1.4.4 Firebug throws following exception:

a.setAttribute is not a function
http://sandboxes.r3-gis/R3-Trees/sito/web/javascript/jquery/jquery.js
Line 55

[dmethvin]

It may have worked but it was never supported or documented. Simply use document.location.href = "http ..." which is faster, simpler, and easier to understand.

This has come up a couple of times in the past, is this your own code or did you get it from somewhere? Can you provide a link?

[daniel.degasperi@…]

Thanks for enlightening me.

I've got the code snippet from somewhere in the WEB, but I can't remember the URL. Meanwhile, much time has passed.

Replying to dmethvin:

It may have worked but it was never supported or documented. Simply use document.location.href = "http ..." which is faster, simpler, and easier to understand.

This has come up a couple of times in the past, is this your own code or did you get it from somewhere? Can you provide a link?

[peter.bremer@…]

Here is a comment that mentions $(location): ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406192/how-to-get-the-current-url-in-jquery/2865546#2865546

[anonymous]

Wouldn't a jQuery object like this help to handle browser inconsistencies between document.location.href and window.location.href?

[Timmy Willison]

There aren't any in browsers we support. They are identical in IE6, FF 3.6, Safari, Chrome, Opera.