Django calling url in javascript

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I am doing my django project and I cannot find answer to how can I call my site from javascript function.

  var time = 5;
  setInterval(function() {
    if(time > 0) {
      document.getElementById("timecounter").innerHTML = "You will be redirected in "
      + time + " seconds. If not then ";
      time--;
    } else {
      location.href="{% url 'index' %}"
    }

  },1000)

this location.href redirects to wrong place. It literally puts "{% url 'index' %}" in URL.

Thank you for help!

Hi, this is in static/timecounter.js and I am calling this from my html — chazefate
– chazefate, Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 12:18
@chazefate Your template tag {% url (obviously) won't work unless it is used in a Django view/template. Use absolute URL of your site instead. — Selcuk
– Selcuk, Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 12:20
You want to redirect to the root directory? Why don't you just use / — ilse2005
– ilse2005, Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 12:25
As @ilse2005 has said, you need to redirect to / or wherever index is. Template tags are only interpreted by django when rendering a page. Javascript is run in the browser, totally unrelated to django — joel goldstick
– joel goldstick, Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 14:32

ilse2005 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-27 14:35:31Z

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As your code is static and not processed by django, you can't use template tags. Change your code to this:

var time = 5;
  setInterval(function() {
    if(time > 0) {
      document.getElementById("timecounter").innerHTML = "You will be redirected in "
      + time + " seconds. If not then ";
      time--;
    } else {
      location.href="/" //this will redirect to your index
    }

  },1000)

answered Feb 27, 2016 at 14:35

ilse2005

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