Why does setting [removed].href not stop script execution

Question

The following code changes the location to www.bing.com regardless of wether redirect is 1 or any other number. If redirect is 1, it logs \"is redirecting\" and then redirec

Answer 1

That's because everything after the if is executed as well, but it looks like there's a difference between Chrome and FF (haven't tested in IE).

Example code:

var redirect = 1;

if (redirect == 1) {
    console.log("is redirecting");
    document.location.assign('https://developer.mozilla.org/');
}

alert('go');
document.location.assign('https://www.bing.com/');

In Chrome 'go' is alerted, and you're redirected to bing.com. In Firefox, 'go' is alerted, but you're redirected to MDN.

I think, the best thing to do is to wrap the other stuff in an else.