How to get/set current page URL (which works across space-time-browsers-versions)

Question

I want to get/set URL of the current page upon certain event.

It seems there are more than one approach for doing it as mentioned in questions/answers below.

Using Jquery

Get URL - $(location).attr('href'); Set URL - $(location).attr('href',url); 

Using JavaScript

Get URL - myVar = window.location.href; Set URL - window.location.href = "http://stackoverflow.com"; 

Which approach works across space-time-browsers-versions?

Get current URL in JavaScript?

How to redirect to another webpage in JavaScript/jQuery?

Answer 1

I don't see any need to use jQuery for this. The following will work perfectly fine in all browsers:

window.location.href = "http://stackoverflow.com"; 

Or even more simply:

location.href = "http://stackoverflow.com";