jquery change the URL address without redirecting

Question

Possible Duplicate    Modify Address Bar URL in AJAX App to Match Current State       How can I change the URL address without redirecting the page   For instance  when I click on this link below    lt a href  http   mysite com projects article-1  class  get-article  gt link lt  a gt    I will grab the URL from the link   var path   object attr  href      If I do this below  the page will be redirected   window location   path    I want to do something like this site  when you click on the image  the ajax call will fetch the requested page and the URL address on the window will be changed too  so that it has a path for what you click

User · Answer

You cannot really change the whole URL in the location bar without redirecting (think of the security issues!).

However you can change the hash part (whats after the #) and read that: location.hash

ps. prevent the default onclick redirect of a link by something like:

$("#link").bind("click",function(e){
  doRedirectFunction();
  e.preventDefault();
})

User · Answer

No  because that would open up the floodgates for phishing  The only part of the URI you can change is the fragment  everything after the     You can do so by setting window location hash

User · Answer

You can t do what you ask  and the linked site does not do exactly that either    You can  however  modify the part of the url after the   sign  which is called the fragment  like this   window location hash    something     Fragments do not get sent to the server  so  for example  Google itself cannot tell the difference between http   www google com  and http   www google com  something   but they can be read by Javascript on your page  In turn  this Javascript can decide to perform a different AJAX request based on the value of the fragment  which is how the site you linked to probably does it

User · Answer

NOTE  history pushState   is now supported - see other answers   You cannot change the whole url without redirecting  what you can do instead is change the hash   The hash is the part of the url that goes after the   symbol  That was initially intended to direct you  locally  to sections of your HTML document  but you can read and modify it through javascript to use it somewhat like a global variable     If applied well  this technique is useful in two ways    the browser history will remember each different step you took  since the url hash changed  you can have an address which links not only to a particular html document  but also gives your javascript a clue about what to do  That means you end up pointing to a state inside your web app      To change the hash you can do   document location hash    show picture       To watch for hash changes you have to do something like   window onhashchange   function        var what to do   document location hash          if  what to do    show picture           show picture          Of course the hash is just a string  so you can do pretty much what you like with it  For example you can put a whole object there if you use JSON to stringify it    There are very good JQuery libraries to do advanced things with that

User · Answer

This is achieved through URL rewriting  not through URL obfuscating  which can t be done   Another way to do this  as has been mentioned is by changing the hashtag  with  window location hash     2131

User · Answer

That site makes use of the  fragment  part of a url  the stuff after the      This is not sent to the server by the browser as part of the GET request  but can be used to store page state  So yes you can change the fragment without causing a page refresh or reload  When the page loads  your javascript reads this fragment and updates the page content appropriately  fetching data from the server via ajax requests as required  To read the fragment in js   var fragment   location hash    but note that this value will include the     character at the beginning  To set the fragment   location hash    your state data

User · Answer

See here - http   my opera com community forums topic dml id 1319992 amp t 1331393279 amp page 1 comment11751402  Essentially   history pushState  data        http   your-domain path      You can manipulate the history object to make this work   It only works on the same domain  but since you re satisfied with using the hash tag approach  that shouldn t matter   Obviously would need to be cross-browser tested  but since that was posted on the Opera forum I m safe to assume it would work in Opera  and I just tested it in Chrome and it worked fine

[jquery] jquery: change the URL address without redirecting?

Examples related to jquery

Examples related to ajax

Examples related to redirect

Examples related to location