safari/chrome onsubmit="location.reload(true)" not working

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user1165664 picture user1165664 · Mar 5, 2012 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

A form on my website is not functioning correctly in Safari/Chrome. When a user submits the form, it opens up a new tab, but I want the original page (page with the form on it) to reload. It works in IE, Opera, and Firefox.

The Code:

<form action="/search.php" method="post" onsubmit="location.reload(true)" target="_blank" name="myform">

I tried other javascript functions like:

  • window.location.reload();
  • document.location.reload();
  • window.location.replace('http://www.websiteurl.com');
  • window.location.href='http://www.websiteurl.com';
  • And other variations of these.

I thought maybe it was the onsubmit="" not working, but when I tried onsubmit="alert('test')" that worked fine in both Safari/Chrome.

Also, on the search.php page that the form posts to, if a user goes directly to the page using the url, and not submitting the form, I have it set that the body tag will load as: 

<body onload="window.location.replace("http://www.websiteurl.com")>

which works on all browsers includeing Safari/Chrome.

What is going on here?!?!

Thanks!

Answer

pimvdb picture pimvdb · Mar 5, 2012

Since it was the solution for you:

Using setTimeout sometimes works as a hacky solution by postponing execution for a very short time: http://jsfiddle.net/xzanQ/.

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