Change the URL in the browser without loading the new page using JavaScript

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If you want it to work in browsers that don’t support history.pushState and history.popState yet, the “old” way is to set the fragment identifier, which won’t cause a page reload.

The basic idea is to set the window.location.hash property to a value that contains whatever state information you need, then either use the window.onhashchange event, or for older browsers that don’t support onhashchange (IE < 8, Firefox < 3.6), periodically check to see if the hash has changed (using setInterval for example) and update the page. You will also need to check the hash value on page load to set up the initial content.

If you’re using jQuery there’s a hashchange plugin that will use whichever method the browser supports. I’m sure there are plugins for other libraries as well.

One thing to be careful of is colliding with ids on the page, because the browser will scroll to any element with a matching id.

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