Is javascript window.location crossbrowser?

Question

Is javascript code window.location functional in all new and old STANDARD POPULAR browsers?

Solution 1

window.location, which shares the same structure as document.location should be identical between modern browsers for the following properties:

• hash (except in FireFox ~< 16.0 where there was a bug with encoding)
• hostname
• href
• pathname
• port
• protocol
• search
• reload()
• replace()

Known Differences:

• Only Webkit has location.origin at the time of writing.

Solution 2

I can't say 'all old browsers' since it may not work in Netscape Navigator 0.9 but yeah this is in the standard and is very widely supported.

Solution 3

window.location works in all major browsers

Comments

[Pekka]

Indeed. JavaScript was first supported in Netscape 2.0.

[folktrash]

related: window.location.origin is missing in ie10 for windows phone, was added to ie11 msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn736066(v=vs.85).aspx

[nktssh]

window.location.origin polyfill: if (!window.location.origin) { window.location.origin = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.hostname + (window.location.port ? ':' + window.location.port: ''); }

[Pedro Ferreira]

Tx for the "location.origin". In fact IE gets all bezerk! ;-)

[Knu]

Not true for pathname.