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Location

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The location of the current page is the address of where it can be found on the web. By assigning a new value to the location we can load an alternative page into the browser. This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called location but if you do then you will not be able to reference the location of the current page or change to a different page using Javascript.
Examples:
location.href = 'index.html';
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