Automatic Page redirection not working in safari browser

Question

I am using below code for automatically redirect to the page in a fraction of seconds.

<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var testTimerID;

testTimerID = window.setTimeout(autoDirect, 30*250 );

function autoDirect() {
window.location = 'home';
}
</script>

This script works fine in all browser except in safari browser.it does not automatically redirect to the another page(home). what is the issue?.how can i solve it?.

You might want to add `// -->` to the end of the script or remove the ` — mplungjan, May 03 '11 at 11:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Try it like this:

<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
//<!--
var testTimerID;

testTimerID = window.setTimeout(function(){
    window.location.href = '/home';
}, 30*250 );
//-->
</script>

Usually JS does not work properly and in same way through all the web browsers... Therefore I advise to use jQuery as it is debugged for all common browsers...

Try aslo reading through this: How to redirect to another webpage in JavaScript/jQuery?

Also instead of relative URL You shoudl use absolute like http://www.mydomain.com/home/, so the code should be:

...
    window.location.href = 'http://www.mydomain.com/home/';
...

.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered May 03 '11 at 11:26

shadyyx

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Why on earth would a simple redirect work better in jQuery than in simple javascript??? -1 for that but +1 for the absolute or complete url – mplungjan May 03 '11 at 11:33
I always recommend using of jQuery instead of plain JS just cos of different JS implementation through many web browsers... While with plain JS You have to check for browser and serve appropriate JS code with jQuery You just don't have to care... – shadyyx May 03 '11 at 11:38
hi i have another solution – Ravichandran Jothi May 03 '11 at 11:42
for a setTimeout and a window.location the code is identical on all browsers. In this case I am sure @Ravi is missing to give use some information. – mplungjan May 03 '11 at 12:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '11 at 11:32

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This works perfectly in Safari 5 for windows

<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">
var testTimerID;

testTimerID = window.setTimeout(autoDirect, 30*250 );

function autoDirect() {
  window.location = 'http://google.com/';
}
</script>

answered May 03 '11 at 11:32

mplungjan

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I used this one now.. working fine – Ravichandran Jothi May 03 '11 at 11:43
@Ravi that is even more important to use full url in a meta refresh, which by the way do not work in my Fx 4 – mplungjan May 03 '11 at 12:25

Automatic Page redirection not working in safari browser

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