How to redirect to home page in JavaScript?

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How can I redirect a user to home page?

Example: mywebsite.example/ddfdf/fdfdsf and I want to redirect to mywebsite.example

However I want to do it without typing the static name. How can I do this?

Question could be better worded to include "with Javascript" or "using Javascript" if that was what you were looking for. — Luke, Jun 25 '16 at 02:41

score 183 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '10 at 07:08

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document.location.href="/";

answered Nov 20 '10 at 07:08

Māris Kiseļovs

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Go to homepage or put it into a function and call it when he clicks on something – Bluedayz May 11 '14 at 12:44

score 39 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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document.location.href="/";

or

 window.location.href = "/";

According to the W3C, they are the same. In reality, for cross browser safety, you should use window.location rather than document.location.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/Window/#window-location

(Note: I copied the difference explanation above, from this question.)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Oct 27 '15 at 22:39

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score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 10:12

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window.location.href = "/";

This worked for me. If you have multiple folders/directories, you can use this:

window.location.href = "/folder_name/";

answered Jun 13 '17 at 10:12

Jeff

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 20 '10 at 07:09

Can you do this on the server, using Apache's mod_rewrite for example? If not, you can use the window.location.replace method to erase the current URL from the back/forward history (to not break the back button) and go to the root of the web site:

window.location.replace('/');

Brandon Montgomery · Answer 5 · 2010-11-20T07:34:45.237

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maybe

var re = /^https?:\/\/[^/]+/i;
window.location.href = re.exec(window.location.href)[0];

is what you're looking for?

edited Nov 20 '10 at 07:34

answered Nov 20 '10 at 07:09

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This will break the back button if it is done automatically on page load. – PleaseStand Nov 20 '10 at 07:57

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 13 '14 at 12:38

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window.location = '/';

Should usually do the trick, but it depends on your sites directories. This will work for your example

edited Jan 13 '14 at 12:38

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answered Jan 13 '14 at 12:32

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 14 '15 at 06:27

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strRetMsg ="<script>window.location.href = '../Other/Home.htm';</script>";

Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "Script", strRetMsg,false);

Put this code in Page Load.

answered Aug 14 '15 at 06:27

Shashikant Sejwar

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Jun 23 '22 at 22:36

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var url = location.href;
var newurl = url.replace('some-domain.example','another-domain.example';);
location.href=newurl;

See this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/42291014/3901511

edited Jun 23 '22 at 22:36

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answered Feb 17 '17 at 06:43

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 21 '22 at 23:21

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var url = location.href;
var newurl = url.replace('some-domain.example','another-domain.example';);
location.href=newurl;

answered Jul 21 '22 at 23:21

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Super Kai - Kazuya Ito · Answer 10 · 2023-08-02T14:11:46.217

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You can redirect to home page with the code below. *location, location.href and location.assign() redirect to the URL adding the record to the history so we can go back to the previous page while location.replace() redirects to the URL not adding the record to the history so we cannot go back to the previous page:

location="/";
location.href="/";
location.assign("/");
location.replace("/");

edited Aug 02 '23 at 14:11

answered Aug 02 '23 at 07:12

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