March 27, 2012
Which one is better approach window.parent.location.href or window.top.location
Question by Haseeb Akhtar
I am working in a project where I have to redirect on Error Page in a particular scenario. For that I have created Error.aspx page. Right now I am using
window.top.location.href = “../Error.aspx” and it generate http://localhost/app_web/Error.aspx
and its working fine except once (which shows Message http://xyz/ErrorPage.aspx‘ does not exist. ). So can anyone suggest which is the better option for this.
Thanks
Answer by Kolink
top is “better than” parent if your intent is to framebust your page into the top level, because your page may be inside a frame that is itself inside a frame.
As for your relative path problem, you may want to try:
var local = location.pathname.split("/");
local.pop(); // remove the filename
local.pop(); // remove the containing directory
local.push("Error.aspx");
local = location.protocol+"//"+location.hostname+"/"+local.join("/");
top.location.href = local;
Answer by Starx
It depends on what you are trying to do.
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window.parent.locationis used to change the location of the parent window.
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window.top.location- It is a property of the object ‘window’.
- It returns the location of the topmost window in the window hierarchy.
- If a window has no parent, top is a reference to itself (window === window.top)
