Change hash without reload in jQuery

user_235889 0
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I have the following code:

$('ul.questions li a').click(function(event) {
    $('.tab').hide();
    $($(this).attr('href')).fadeIn('slow');
    event.preventDefault();
    window.location.hash = $(this).attr('href');
});

This simply fades a div in based on when you click but I want the page URL hash tag to change when you click so people can copy and bookmark it. At the moment this effectively reloads the page when the hash tag is change.

Is it possible to change the hash tag and not reload the page to prevent the jumping effect?

window.location reload hash fragment-identifier jquery
5 Answers

This works for me

$('ul.questions li a').click(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    $('.tab').hide();
    window.location.hash = this.hash;
    $($(this).attr('href')).fadeIn('slow');
});

Check here http://jsbin.com/edicu for a demo with almost identical code

user_1224280

You could try catching the onload event. And stopping the propagation dependent on some flag.

var changeHash = false;

$('ul.questions li a').click(function(event) {
    var $this = $(this)
    $('.tab').hide();  //you can improve the speed of this selector.
    $($this.attr('href')).fadeIn('slow');
    StopEvent(event);  //notice I've changed this
    changeHash = true;
    window.location.hash = $this.attr('href');
});

$(window).onload(function(event){
    if (changeHash){
        changeHash = false;
        StopEvent(event);
    }
}

function StopEvent(event){
    event.preventDefault();
    event.stopPropagation();
    if ($.browser.msie) {
        event.originalEvent.keyCode = 0;
        event.originalEvent.cancelBubble = true;
        event.originalEvent.returnValue = false;
    }
}

Not tested, so can't say if it would work

user_1444910

You can set your hash directly to URL too.

window.location.hash = "YourHash";

The result : http://url#YourHash

user_121184130

You can simply assign it a new value as follows,

window.location.hash
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