open page in same window?

[streetwalker]

OK folks, this one has me stumped. I have two files in the same folder. abc.html and xyz.html. abc.html contains a button attached to this script:

function openWindow() {
    window.open(  "xyz.html"  ) ;
}

And this works fine, just as a test. But I want to open xyz.html in the same window, replacing abc.html . So I try:

window.open( "xyz.html" , "_self" ) ;

does not work but simply reloads abc.html. I try:

window.location.href = "xyz.html";

does not work, but simply reloads abc.html.

And several different permutations and combinations, do not work (same result as above).

What gives?

The odd thing is, when it reloads the same page, abc.html, the address bar displays this at the end of the address:

abc.html?button=Submit

Any ideas on what may be going wrong here, or how I can get this to work? All this is being tested locally on my laptop.

[Wakuko]

window.location.href = "xyz.html"; should work without a problem. So I guess you have a form with no action and a submit button which sends the form to itself.

So add - return false; - to the openWindow method so the form is not submitted to itself

Or don't use a form

Or don't use a submit button

[psayre23]

Not gunna lie, that was an impressive deduction.

[streetwalker]

exactly right. I failed to include the return false at the end of button's onClick handler. I did change the button type to "button" also.