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What is the difference between document.location.href and document.location?
Is it the same across browsers?
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The location. href property sets or returns the entire URL of the current page.
window. location is read/write on all compliant browsers. document. location is read-only in Internet Explorer (at least), but read/write in Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, SeaMonkey).
The Document. location read-only property returns a Location object, which contains information about the URL of the document and provides methods for changing that URL and loading another URL. Though Document. location is a read-only Location object, you can also assign a string to it.
document.location is a synonym for window.location that has been deprecated for almost as long as JavaScript has existed. Don't use it.
location is a structured object, with properties corresponding to the parts of the URL. location.href is the whole URL in a single string. Assigning a string to either is defined to cause the same kind of navigation, so take your pick.
I consider writing to location.href = something to be marginally better as it's slightly more explicit about what it's doing. You generally want to avoid just location = something as it looks misleadingly like a variable assignment. window.location = something is fine though.
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