location object of window in JavaScript samples and uses

Window Location is a URL object. It is mostly used to redirect or reload the pages.

Properties

Property	Description
location.href	Full URL string.
location.protocol	Protocol Used in URL
location.host	Hostname string
location.hostname	Domain part of the URL
location.port	Port Number of the URL
location.pathname	String starting from / giving path from the URL
location.search	QueryString starting from ? from the URL
location.hash	String followed by # in URL

Above demo will give value of all properties of a simple URL ( without any query string or hash etc ) . We can create one location object by adding all the above properties to the URL and check the output.

Application of location Properties

location.href to extract path from URL

location.hostname to extract hostname from URL

location.reload to Refreshing the current page

Location Methods

Methods	Description
location.assign()	Opens the provided URL in browser. You can use Back Button to return to this page. `<input type=button value='JavaScirpt Home by assign' onClick=window.location.assign('site_map.php');>`
location.reload()	Reloads Current URL. `<input type=button value='Refresh this Page' onClick=window.location.reload();>`
location.replace()	Replace with provided URL and opens the page. While moving to provided ( URL) page , the current page will not be saved in session history, so you can't use Back button of browser to return to the parent ( this ) page. So a link is provided in Demo page to return to this page. This is the main difference between location.assign() and location.replace() `<input type=button value='Demo page by Replace' onClick=window.location.replace('location-demo.php');>`
location.toString()	Returns the full URL as string . On Click location.toString() Method will return one alert Box with the URL String `<input type=button value='Demo toStringe() by Alert' onClick=alert(window.location.toString());>`

location object in JavaScript

Properties

Application of location Properties

Location Methods