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location. reload(true); reloads the page from the server instead of from the cache, window. location. reload(); would do the same thing as location.
location. href method returns/loads the current url. So we can use it to reload/refresh the page in javascript.
Window location. The reload() method reloads the current document. The reload() method does the same as the reload button in your browser.
If I remember correctly, window.location.reload() reloads the current page with POST data, while window.location.href=window.location.href does not include the POST data.
As noted by @W3Max in the comments below, window.location.href=window.location.href will not reload the page if there's an anchor (#) in the URL - You must use window.location.reload() in this case.
Also, as noted by @Mic below, window.location.reload() takes an additional argument skipCache so that with using window.location.reload(true) the browser will skip the cache and reload the page from the server. window.location.reload(false) will do the opposite, and load the page from cache if possible.
If you say window.location.reload(true) the browser will skip the cache and reload the page from the server. window.location.reload(false) will do the opposite.
Note: default value for window.location.reload() is false
The difference is that
window.location = document.URL;
will not reload the page if there is a hash (#) in the URL (with or without something after it), whereas
window.location.reload();
will reload the page.
If you add the boolean true to the reload
window.location.reload(true) it will load from server.
It is not clear how supported this boolean is, W3Org mentions that NS used to support it
There MIGHT be a difference between the content of window.location.href and document.URL - there at least used to be a difference between location.href and the non-standard and deprecated document.location that had to do with redirection, but that is really last millennium.
For documentation purposes I would use window.location.reload() because that is what you want to do.
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