How to redirect to home page in JavaScript?

Question

How can I redirect a user to home page?

Example: mywebsite.example/ddfdf/fdfdsf and I want to redirect to mywebsite.example

However I want to do it without typing the static name. How can I do this?

Trengganu

Question could be better worded to include "with Javascript" or "using Javascript" if that was what you were looking for. – Oligopsony

Answer 1

document.location.href="/";

Windom

<span href='document.location.href="/";'>Go to homepage</span> or put it into a function and call it when he clicks on something – Nedra

Answer 2

document.location.href="/";

or

 window.location.href = "/";

According to the W3C, they are the same. In reality, for cross browser safety, you should use window.location rather than document.location.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/Window/#window-location

(Note: I copied the difference explanation above, from this question.)

Solis

Answer 3

window.location.href = "/";

This worked for me. If you have multiple folders/directories, you can use this:

window.location.href = "/folder_name/";

Devland

Answer 4

Can you do this on the server, using Apache's mod_rewrite for example? If not, you can use the window.location.replace method to erase the current URL from the back/forward history (to not break the back button) and go to the root of the web site:

window.location.replace('/');

Ashmore

Answer 5

maybe

var re = /^https?:\/\/[^/]+/i;
window.location.href = re.exec(window.location.href)[0];

is what you're looking for?

Kast

This will break the back button if it is done automatically on page load. – Ashmore

Answer 6

window.location = '/';

Should usually do the trick, but it depends on your sites directories. This will work for your example

Smashandgrab

Answer 7

strRetMsg ="<script>window.location.href = '../Other/Home.htm';</script>";

Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "Script", strRetMsg,false);

Put this code in Page Load.

Nosography

Answer 8

var url = location.href;
var newurl = url.replace('some-domain.example','another-domain.example';);
location.href=newurl;

See this answer https://mcmap.net/q/225598/-301-redirect-blogger-to-another-host-and-keep-google-rank

Victorvictoria

Answer 9

var url = location.href;
var newurl = url.replace('some-domain.example','another-domain.example';);
location.href=newurl;

Hally

Answer 10

You can redirect to home page with the code below. *location, location.href and location.assign() redirect to the URL adding the record to the history so we can go back to the previous page while location.replace() redirects to the URL not adding the record to the history so we cannot go back to the previous page:

location="/";
location.href="/";
location.assign("/");
location.replace("/");

Isoline