How to open a hyperlink on the same page with javascript?

Question

I am using this to open on a new window:

<div class="backbutton" OnClick="javascript: window.open('http://www.goesback.com')">Go back</div>

How to amend this if I want onclick to open a hyperlink on the same page?

thanks.

Answer 1

You just set the url to the window.location.href

so

<div class="backbutton" OnClick="window.location.href = 'http://www.goesback.com'">Go back</div>

But you should really just convert it to a regular link

<a class="backbutton" href="http://www.goesback.com">Go back</div>