BUG: Redirection in Anchor Tag Using Location.href Fails

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Insert the following HTML into a Web page:

      <HTML>
      <HEAD>
         <TITLE>Redirecting within an anchor tag</TITLE>
   
         <SCRIPT>
   
            function GoSomewhere()
            {
               location.href = "<WWLINK TYPE="GENERIC"    VALUE="http://www.microsoft.com";">http://www.microsoft.com";</WWLINK>
         }
         </SCRIPT>
      </HEAD>
      <BODY>
      <A NAME=SomeLink HREF=#book onclick=GoSomewhere()>Click Here</A
      </BODY>
      </HTML>
   						

2. Click on the link at the top of the page. The result is that nothing happens.

The following HTML demonstrates two ways to work around this problem using the "javascript:" syntax. Using the workaround demonstrated in Link 2, you can determine the location to which you want to navigate.

Sample Code

   <HTML>
   <HEAD>

   <TITLE>Redirecting within an anchor tag</TITLE>

   <SCRIPT>
      function GoSomewhere()
      {
         location.href = "<WWLINK TYPE="GENERIC"             VALUE="http://www.microsoft.com";">http://www.microsoft.com";</WWLINK>
      }
   </SCRIPT>

   </HEAD>
   <BODY>

   <A NAME=Link1
      HREF="javascript:location.href='<WWLINK TYPE="GENERIC"       VALUE="http://www.microsoft.com'">">http://www.microsoft.com'"></WWLINK>
      Link 1</A>
      <BR>
   <A NAME=Link2 HREF="javascript:GoSomewhere()">Link 2</A>

   </BODY>
   </HTML>