Question

I am currently fighting Google Chrome on the following action:

location.href = url

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location.replace(url)

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document.location = url

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window.navigate(url) // doesn't work in Chrome/Firefox

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location.assign(url)

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window.open(url, '_self')

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window.location.href = url

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I have tried all, and neither will add a history entry. Is there a way in Google Chrome to do a javascript redirect WITH history?

Thanks.

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Explanation
We have a table of items, when clicking on the row, I want the page to navigate to a specified URL, if anyone has a good solution to this other than using the onclick=send method we are using now, please let me know.

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Update
It appears that Stackoverflow its-self has this exact same issue. In the main view, click on one of the first 3 columns in the question list (# answers, etc..), then click the back button, it will take you back 2 pages.

Answer 1

Although, I first must say that this is Chrome behaving stupid, and you probably should not worry about it. Try to create a dummy form and with a GET method and programmatically submit it…

<form id="dummyForm" method="GET" action="#">
  <input type="hidden" name="test" value="test" />
</form>

Then your onclick…

var frm = document.forms["dummyForm"];
frm.action = url;
frm.submit();