Is top.location cross browser?

[nntp]

Assuming JS is enabled, what is the most cross browser for changing the
location of the page? I am currently use top.location. Works fine in IE 6,
Firefox 9, Opera 7, but I am not sure about older or other browers, like Mac
browser.

this.location
top.location
document.locati on
_top.location

[Fred Oz]

Re: Is top.location cross browser?

nntp wrote:[color=blue]
> Assuming JS is enabled, what is the most cross browser for changing the
> location of the page? I am currently use top.location. Works fine in IE 6,
> Firefox 9, Opera 7, but I am not sure about older or other browers, like Mac
> browser.
>
> this.location
> top.location
> document.locati on
> _top.location
>
>[/color]

The oldest Mac browser I have is IE, I guess I could test NS 4 if I
could find somewhere to download it from and you're really desperate.

I tested top.location in the following Mac browsers (listed in
alphabetical order for no particular reason):

Camino 0.7
Firefox 0.9.1
Internet Explorer 5.2.2
Mozilla 1.7
Netscape 7.2
Omniweb 5.0.1
Opera 6.03
Safari 1.0.3

Cheers, Fred :-)

[nntp]

Re: Is top.location cross browser?

> > this.location[color=blue][color=green]
> > top.location
> > document.locati on
> > _top.location
> >
> >[/color]
>
> The oldest Mac browser I have is IE, I guess I could test NS 4 if I
> could find somewhere to download it from and you're really desperate.
>
> I tested top.location in the following Mac browsers (listed in
> alphabetical order for no particular reason):
>
> Camino 0.7
> Firefox 0.9.1
> Internet Explorer 5.2.2
> Mozilla 1.7
> Netscape 7.2
> Omniweb 5.0.1
> Opera 6.03
> Safari 1.0.3
>
> Cheers, Fred :-)[/color]

TESTED? Result? All passed?
I appriciate your time. Thank.

[Fred Oz]

Re: Is top.location cross browser?

nntp wrote:
[color=blue]
> TESTED? Result? All passed?
> I appriciate your time. Thank.
>
>[/color]

Sheesh, always with the questions... :-)

I realise I shoulda added "and they all passed".

Cheers, Fred.

[VK]

Re: Is top.location cross browser?

To address the same page where the script itself resides:
self.location.h ref = newURL;

To address another page in a frameset:
window.top.fram eName.location. href = newURL;
or (hypercorrect):
window.top.fram es['frameName'].location.href = newURL;

top.location addresses the topmost frame, which is semi-OK if there are no
frames (=self) or if you indeed want to replace the whole frameset with the
new address.
Otherwise the results will not be as expected.