Difference between window.location.href=window.location.href and window.location.reload()

What is the difference between JavaScript's

window.location.href = window.location.href

and

window.location.reload()

functions?

If I remember correctly, window.location.reload() reloads the current page with POST data, while window.location.href=window.location.href does not include the POST data.

As noted by @W3Max in the comments below, window.location.href=window.location.href will not reload the page if there's an anchor (#) in the URL - You must use window.location.reload() in this case.

Also, as noted by @Mic below, window.location.reload() takes an additional argument skipCache so that with using window.location.reload(true) the browser will skip the cache and reload the page from the server. window.location.reload(false) will do the opposite, and load the page from cache if possible.

If you say window.location.reload(true) the browser will skip the cache and reload the page from the server. window.location.reload(false) will do the opposite.

Note: default value for window.location.reload() is false

The difference is that

window.location = document.URL;

will not reload the page if there is a hash (#) in the URL (with or without something after it), whereas

window.location.reload();

will reload the page.

If you add the boolean true to the reload window.location.reload(true) it will load from server.

It is not clear how supported this boolean is, W3Org mentions that NS used to support it

There MIGHT be a difference between the content of window.location.href and document.URL - there at least used to be a difference between location.href and the non-standard and deprecated document.location that had to do with redirection, but that is really last millennium.

For documentation purposes I would use window.location.reload() because that is what you want to do.

As said, modifying the href when there is a hash (#) in the url would not reload the page. Thus, I use this to reload it instead of regular expressions:

if (!window.location.hash) {
    window.location.href = window.location.href;
} else {
    window.location.reload();
}