How can I refresh a page with jQuery?

Use location.reload().

For example, to reload whenever an element with id="something" is clicked:

$('#something').click(function() {
    location.reload();
});

The reload() function takes an optional parameter that can be set to true to force a reload from the server rather than the cache. The parameter defaults to false, so by default the page may reload from the browser's cache.

There are multiple unlimited ways to refresh a page with JavaScript:

1. location.reload()
2. history.go(0)
3. location.href = location.href
4. location.href = location.pathname
5. location.replace(location.pathname)

6. location.reload(false)

   If we needed to pull the document from the web-server again (such as where the document contents change dynamically) we would pass the argument as true.

You can continue the list being creative:

• window.location = window.location
• window.self.window.self.window.window.location = window.location
• ...and other 534 ways

var methods = [
  "location.reload()",
  "history.go(0)",
  "location.href = location.href",
  "location.href = location.pathname",
  "location.replace(location.pathname)",
  "location.reload(false)"
];

var $body = $("body");
for (var i = 0; i < methods.length; ++i) {
  (function(cMethod) {
    $body.append($("<button>", {
      text: cMethod
    }).on("click", function() {
      eval(cMethod); // don't blame me for using eval
    }));
  })(methods[i]);
}

button {
  background: #2ecc71;
  border: 0;
  color: white;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: "Monaco", monospace;
  padding: 10px;
  border-radius: 4px;
  cursor: pointer;
  transition: background-color 0.5s ease;
  margin: 2px;
}
button:hover {
  background: #27ae60;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

This works on all browsers:

location.reload();