Getting URL hash location and using it in jQuery

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I d like to get the value after a hash in the URL of the current page and then be able to apply this in a new function    eg   The URL could be  www example com index html foo   And I would like to use this in conjunction with the following piece of code     ul foo first   show      I m kinda assuming hoping there is some way of grabbing this  and turning it into a variable that I can then use in the second piece of code

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For those who are looking for pure javascript solution    document getElementById location hash substring 1   style display    block    Hope this saves you some time

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Editor s note  the approach below has serious security implications and  depending upon the version of jQuery you are using  may expose your users to XSS attacks  For more detail  see the discussion of the possible attack in the comments on this answer or this explanation on Security Stack Exchange    You can use the location hash property to grab the hash of the current page   var hash   window location hash     ul  hash   first   show      Note that this property already contains the   symbol at the beginning   Actually you don t need the  first pseudo-selector since you are using the ID selector  is assumed that IDs are unique within the DOM   In case you want to get the hash from an URL string  you can use the String substring method   var url    http   example com file htm foo   var hash   url substring url indexOf             foo    Advice  Be aware that the user can change the hash as he wants  injecting anything to your selector  you should check the hash before using it

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I would suggest better cek first if the current page has a hash  Otherwise it will be undefined     window  on  load   function                if  location hash  amp  amp  location hash length            var hash   decodeURIComponent location hash substr 1              ul  hash   first   show

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I m using this to address the security implications noted in  CMS s answer      example 1  www example com index html foo     load correct subpage from URL hash if it exists   window  on  load   function          var hash   window location hash      if  hash            hash   hash replace             strip the   at the beginning of the string         hash   hash replace     a-z0-9    gi   -       strip all non-alphanumeric characters         hash         hash     hash now equals  foo with example 1             do stuff with hash             ul    hash     first    show               etc

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location hash is not safe for IE   in case of IE   including IE9     if your page contains iframe   then after manual refresh  inside iframe content get location hash value is old  value for first page load    while manual retrieved value is different than location hash  so always retrieve it through document URL  var hash   document URL substr document URL indexOf      1

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Since jQuery 1 9  the  target selector will match the URL hash  So you could do       target   show       or    ul target   show      Which would select the element with the ID matching the hash and show it

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