location.href

[y2k1981]

Can somebody tell me... is the object

location

a child of the

document

or

window

object. I've been using

document.location.href

without any problems, but I think I saw

window.location.href

somewhere and that sounds like it's what I should be using.

Any ideas anybody?

 

[starway]

Location is a property of [tt]window[/tt] object. However, you can use both ways window/document.

Here's a brief from original Netscape's JS 1.2 Guide:[tt]
"In event handlers, you must specify window.location instead of simply using location. Due to the scoping of static objects in JavaScript, a call to location without specifying an object name is equivalent to document.location, which is a synonym for document.URL.

Do not use location as a property of the document object; use the document.URL property instead. The document.location property, which is a synonym for document.URL, will be removed in a future release."[/tt]

As we see now, it wasn't removed so we can use both ways safely.

 

[y2k1981]

Thanks for the clarification, and the background info. Much appreciated