Can anyone suss this out for me?...

its a confirm box used on an asp created page: -

// to call the funtion
<a href="&"javascript:void(null)"&" onClick="&"confirm_delete("& newsId &"); return false"&">Delete</a>

// the function
<script language="javascript">
function confirm_delete (newsId)
{
var message = "Are you sure you want to delete?";
var return_value = confirm(message);

if ( return_value == true )
{
window.location.href="http://www.google.com";
}
}
</script>

the window.location just doesn't work, I hear the clicking sound but nothing happens, if I change to window.open it works fine, but I obviously dont want it in a new window. I have tried messing around with various syntax but not really sure what to do.

Any ideas very much appreciated

dan

Looking at the Location object, I don't think that you need to reset the href property. Just assign the new URL to window.location.

window.location = 'http://www.google.com/';

I still get nothing? I am really confused on such a simple thing, I can't find any other similar problems in any forums which leads me to believe I'm doing something even more basic wrongly, but can't think what?

Thanks for your help

I think it might be because you're returning false, try returning true.

onclick="confirm_delete(newsId); return true">

OK gettin somewhere, I managed to get it to work now with, as you said:

window.location = 'http://www.google.com/';

BUT, how do i link to a relative page? e.g.

window.location = 'samplepage.htm';

its totally weird

window.open="filename.htm"; is fine
window.location="http://www.domain.com; is fine
but
window.location="filename.htm" doesn't work
window.location="http://www.domain.com/filename.htm" doesn't work either

??????????????????????????????

I usually use

<script>
location.href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com";
</script>