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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:20:29+00:00

I’m attempting to use document.location(.href) on the onLoad event to redirect from one page

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I’m attempting to use document.location(.href) on the onLoad event to redirect from one page (A) to another (B).

From my understanding, if I use document.location.href (as opposed to .replace), it should add (A) to my history. However, this doesn’t appear to be happening.

I’ve tried setting document.location, document.location.href, and using .assign, and none of these seem to add the first page to the history. Is there any JS technique that can be done via onLoad that will cause (A) to be in the history?

Cheers,
Victor

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you modify document.location.href, it will definitely add to the history.

    Try this demo page →

    Code:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<title>Sandbox</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body { background-color: #000; font: 16px Helvetica, Arial; color: #fff; }
</style>
<script>
$(document).ready( 
function() 
{ 
   $('#hello').click( function(ev) { ev.preventDefault(); document.location.href='http://www.google.com';}); 
} 
);
</script>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Hello from JS Bin</p>
  <a id="hello" href="#">Click Me</a>
</body>
</html>

    Can you create a sample page where it shows that browser history is not changed?

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