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Question

I know this is a question much discussed but I can\'t figure out why it does not work for me.

This is my function:

function ShowComments(){

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Answer 1

In case anyone was a tired and silly as I was the other night whereupon I came across many threads espousing the different methods to get a javascript redirect, all of which were failing...

You can't use window.location.replace or document.location.href or any of your favourite vanilla javascript methods to redirect a page to itself.

So if you're dynamically adding in the redirect path from the back end, or pulling it from a data tag, make sure you do check at some stage for redirects to the current page. It could be as simple as:

if(window.location.href == linkout)
{
    location.reload();
}
else
{
    window.location.href = linkout;
}