How to redirect URL in Javascript or jQuery

Question

Can some one please help me to understand how to do this following PHP's simple redirection in either Javascript or jQuery?

If the client wanted to redirect the www.clientsite.com/bbc to http://www.bbc.com/ then in PHP I would just make the "bbc" folder and create an index.php file in it and add these lines:

<?php
  header("Location: http://www.bbc.com/");
?>

So my question is, how can I redirect www.clientsite.com/bbc to BBC page, or if it's www.clientsite.com/food then to Food Network and so on with either Javascript or jQuery? Thank you very much in advance!

UPDATE:

Thank you everyone for your help! For some reason the window.location.href wasn't redirecting my page, so I ended up using the window.location.replace. And found these pages very helpful:

Inspect the current contents of `window.location.href` before you update it. Please don't use comments to expand on or ask new questions though — James Thorpe, Jan 30 '15 at 22:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '15 at 22:20

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JS redirect with nojs fallback.

Code:

<script>
  window.location.href = "YOUR-URL";
</script>

<noscript>
  <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=YOUR-URL">
</noscript>

answered Jan 30 '15 at 22:20

Linus

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thank you for providing the meat tag solution as well, wasn't thinking of what if the user has javascript disabled :) – AlwaysANovice Feb 02 '15 at 23:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '16 at 17:54

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setTimeout(function(){window.location.href='http://wmtest2.nl/portfolio/'},19500);

19500 - is timing, this will redirect to the link after 19.5secs

answered Feb 26 '16 at 17:54

Harshana Nishshanka

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How to redirect URL in Javascript or jQuery

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