Assigning to [removed].href without clobbering history

Question

In testing document.location.href, I have observed that when the user initiates an action that results in javascript that assigns to document.location.href, the new URL is a

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem and found this workaround which worked for me

instead of

function onAjaxCallback(evt){
    location.href=newLocation;
}

i wrapped the location.href call around a setTimeout. Seems to do the trick. My history's behaving fine now. Hope that helps

function onAjaxCallback(evt){
    setTimeout(function(){
        location.href=newLocation;
    },0)
}