How do we update URL or query strings using javascript jQuery without reloading the page

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Is there a way to update the URL programatically without reloading the page   EDIT  I added something in the title in post  I just want to make it clear that I don t want to reload the page

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Yes - document location hash for queries

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Plain javascript  document location    http   www google com    This will cause a browser refresh though - consider using hashes if you re in need of having the URL updated to implement some kind of browsing history without reloading the page  You might want to look into jQuery hashchange if this is the case

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Yes  document location is the normal way   However document location is effectively the same as window location  except for window location is a bit more supported in older browsers so may be the prefferable choice   Check out this thread on SO for more info   What  39 s the difference between window location and document location in JavaScript

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You ll need to be more specific  What do you mean by  update the URL    It could mean automatically navigating to a different page  which is certainly possible   If you want to just update the contents of the address bar without reloading the page  see Modify the URL without reloading the page

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Define a new URL object  assign it the current url  append your parameter s  to that URL object and finally push it to your browsers state   var url   new URL window location href     var url   new URL window location origin   window location pathname   lt - flush existing parameters url searchParams append  order   orderId   window history pushState null  null  url

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You can use    window history pushState  obj    newtitle   newUrlWithQueryString

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Use      window history replaceState     document title  updatedUri     To update Url without reloading the page   var url   window location href   var urlParts   url split        if  urlParts length  gt  0         var baseUrl   urlParts 0        var queryString   urlParts 1           update queryString in here   I have added a new string at the end in this example      var updatedQueryString   queryString    this is the new url         var updatedUri   baseUrl         updatedQueryString       window history replaceState     document title  updatedUri        To remove Query string without reloading the page  var url   window location href  if  url indexOf       gt  0         var updatedUri   url substring 0  url indexOf             window history replaceState     document title  updatedUri

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Yes and no  All the common web browsers has a security measure to prevent that  The goal is to prevent people from creating replicas of websites  change the URL to make it look correct  and then be able to trick people and get their info   However  some HTML5 compatible web browsers has implemented an History API that can be used for something similar to what you want   if  history pushState        var newurl   window location protocol          window location host   window location pathname     myNewUrlQuery 1       window history pushState  path newurl     newurl       I tested  and it worked fine  It does not reload the page  but it only allows you to change the URL query  You would not be able to change the protocol or the host values   For more information   http   diveintohtml5 info history html  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web Guide API DOM Manipulating the browser history

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Prefix URL changes with a hashtag to avoid a redirect   This redirects  location href      amp test  true     This doesn t redirect  location href       amp test  true

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Yes - document location    http   my new url com   You can also retrieve it the same way eg    var myURL   document location  document location   myURL     a parameter     The location object has a number of useful properties too   hash            Returns the anchor portion of a URL host            Returns the hostname and port of a URL hostname        Returns the hostname of a URL href            Returns the entire URL pathname        Returns the path name of a URL port            Returns the port number the server uses for a URL protocol        Returns the protocol of a URL search          Returns the query portion of a URL   EDIT  Setting the hash of the document location shouldn t reload the page  just alter where on the page the focus is  So updating to  myId will scroll to the element with id  myId   If the id doesn t exist I believe nothing will happen   Need to confirm on various browsers though   EDIT2  To make it clear  not just in a comment  You can t update the whole URL with javascript without changing the page  this is a security restriction  Otherwise you could click on a link to a random page  crafted to look like gmail  and instantly change the URL to www gmail com and steal people s login details  You can change the part after the domain on some browsers to cope with AJAX style things  but that s already been linked to by Osiris  What s more  you probably shouldn t do this  even if you could   The URL tells the user where he she is on your site  If you change it without changing the page contents  it s becomes a little confusing

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