# navigateToURL not working in IE7

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**Created:** [May 19, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigatetourl-not-working-in-ie7/288707 "2009-05-19T23:51:13Z")\
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I have a series of buttons that I want to act as links. In firefox and safari, the links work fine, but in IE, it reacts as if I hit the reload button…This is the code I am using:

```auto

private function launchCourse(event:MouseEvent):void
{
	navigateToURL(new URLRequest(String(courseInfo[event.currentTarget.id].courseURL)),"_self");
}

```

any ideas??

I am using ExternalInterface.call right now and using javascript to change pages right now which is working, but I do not want to rely on javascript…