location Object

Contains information about the current URL.

Members Table

Property	Description
hash	Sets or retrieves the subsection of the href property that follows the number sign (#).
host	Sets or retrieves the hostname and port number of the location or URL.
hostname	Sets or retrieves the host name part of the location or URL.
href	Sets or retrieves the entire URL as a string.
pathname	Sets or retrieves the file name or path specified by the object.
port	Sets or retrieves the port number associated with a URL.
protocol	Sets or retrieves the protocol portion of a URL.
search	Sets or retrieves the substring of the href property that follows the question mark.

Method	Description
assign	Loads a new HTML document.
reload	Reloads the current page.
replace	Replaces the current document by loading another document at the specified URL.

Remarks

The href property contains the entire URL, while the other properties contain portions of the URL. The default property for the location object is location.href. For example, setting location='http://microsoft.com' is equivalent to setting location.href='http://microsoft.com'.

The browser immediately navigates to the specified URL when any of the properties listed below are set.

This object is available in script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.

Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this object.

Applies To

	document, window

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