Question

I have the following Javascript. The document.location statement produces an error as the URL does not exist. I thought that a try/catch block would catch any errors. However, this does not work. Any ideas how I avoid this error and to continue processing the rest of the script?

<script type="text/javascript">
function foo() 
{
  try
  {
    document.location='non-existing-site.com';
  }
  catch(err)
  {
  }

}
</script>

Answer 1

When you change the location you just redirected…
The error handling needs to be in the new page. In your example in 'non-existing-site.com'
The HTML and javascript of the previous page is irrelevant at this point.

You can open the new page in a child window if you like to (Though pop-up is Yuck…)

var newWindow = window.open('non-existing-site.com', "windowName");