Sometimes a JavaScript method may change the context of the current page making some of the content obsolete. An example is if due to a user action you change the value of a cookie. Say you have a dialog to launch a user settings page. On this page you can select to show/not show C# code. Once this dialog is selected and closed you will want to re-draw any open pages this may effect. Partial page updates are one of the greatest advantage of AJAX.
for example:
document.cookie = ‘ShowC#Files=true;path=/’
- If the changed cookie value does not require a server post back then
window.location.reload( false ); - If the changed cookie value is used by Server Side code to generate the page you will require a server post back thus passing true to method
window.location.reload( true);
Firefox has issues refreshing the page using JavaScript window.location.reload(). A work around is to use document.location.reload().
