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Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / November 2004w3c compliant substitute for window.location
Is there a w3c compliant substitute for window.location? I don't need the full functionality of the location object; just the ability of getting the URL (including the search field). - David Gauntt > Is there a w3c compliant substitute for window.location? > I don't need the full functionality of the location > object; just the ability of getting the URL (including > the search field). document.URL allows you to retrieve the absolute address to the document as a simple string. IE will allow you to assign to it (and some others might, too), but it's defined as read-only. Mike  SignatureMichael Winter Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail. > Is there a w3c compliant substitute for window.location? > I don't need the full functionality of the location > object; just the ability of getting the URL (including > the search field). Well the window object is not part of the W3C DOM specification, indeed that has tried to abstract from user agents. As long as you are scripting HTML document in browsers there is nothing wrong with using window window.document window.location I don't see that as not being W3C compliant only because the W3C hasn't had any interest to standardize that stuff. SVG 1.2 which is more something like web application tries to standardize a global object, see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/api.html#GlobalObject but I don't think that helps in any way when scripting HTML documents. SignatureMartin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ >I don't see that as not being W3C compliant only because the W3C hasn't >had any interest to standardize that stuff. They'll likely be a web-application working group coming along soon, they may or may not standardise some of the legacy stuff. Jim. It looks like I may as well keep using window.location. I haven't run into a browser that doesn't use it, and since document.URL is read-only, it does't help. Thanks for the replies! - David Gauntt |
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