window.location.href not setting query parameters

Question

I'm trying to set a new url, I've used:

window.location.href = <url>;
window.location.assign(<url>);

if the url contains a section with query string parameters, Eg. info?value=1 in IE the url will not show these parameters. I tried the above two in Chrome and Chrome does show the query parameters. What's the hack to get it to work in IE?

Answer 1

location.assign(encodeURIComponent('/step2.php?id=1'));

The problem is likely due to the value of your variables. If they contain special or invalid characters, those needs to be passed through encodeURIComponent before being assigned location.assign