On - window location hash - Change

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I am using Ajax and hash for navigation    Is there a way to check if the window location hash changed like this   http   example com blah 123 to http   example com blah 456  It works if I check it when the document loads   But if I have  hash based navigation it doesn t work when I press the back button on the browser  so I jump from blah 456 to blah 123     It shows inside the address box  but I can t catch it with JavaScript

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A decent implementation can be found at http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/. The only (but also) problem and bug it has is: in Internet Explorer modifying the location hash manually will reset the entire history stack (this is a browser issue and it cannot be solved).

Note, Internet Explorer 8 does have support for the "hashchange" event, and since it is becoming part of HTML5 you may expect other browsers to catch up.

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Note that in case of Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 7 and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 9 the if statment will give true  for  onhashchange  in windows   but the window onhashchange will never fire  so it s better to store hash and check it after every 100 millisecond whether it s changed or not for all versions of Internet nbsp Explorer       if    onhashchange  in window   amp  amp      browser msie              window onhashchange   function                    alert window location hash                          Or   window  bind   hashchange  function e                      alert window location hash                               else           var prevHash   window location hash          window setInterval function                 if  window location hash    prevHash                  prevHash   window location hash                alert window location hash                           100           EDIT - Since jQuery 1 9    browser msie is not supported  Source  http   api jquery com jquery browser

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I was using this in a react application to make the URL display different parameters depending what view the user was on   I watched the hash parameter using   window addEventListener  hashchange   doSomethingWithChangeFunction       Then   doSomethingWithChangeFunction              Get new hash value     let urlParam   window location hash         Do something with new hash value      Worked a treat  works with forward and back browser buttons and also in browser history

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Another great implementation is jQuery History which will use the native onhashchange event if it is supported by the browser  if not it will use an iframe or interval appropriately for the browser to ensure all the expected functionality is successfully emulated  It also provides a nice interface to bind to certain states   Another project worth noting as well is jQuery Ajaxy which is pretty much an extension for jQuery History to add ajax to the mix  As when you start using ajax with hashes it get s quite complicated

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I used a jQuery plugin  HUtil  and wrote a YUI History like interface on top of it   Check it out once  If you need help I can help

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var page url    http   www yoursite com       full path leading up to hash  var current url w hash   page url   window location hash     now you might have something like  http   www yoursite com  123  function TrackHash         if  document location    page url   current url w hash            window location   document location            return false    var RunTabs   setInterval TrackHash  200     That s it    now  anytime you hit your back or forward buttons  the page will reload as per the new hash value

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Ben Alman has a great jQuery plugin for dealing with this  http   benalman com projects jquery-hashchange-plugin   If you re not using jQuery it may be an interesting reference to dissect

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You could easily implement an observer  the  watch  method  on the  hash  property of  window location  object   Firefox has its own implementation for watching changes of object  but if you use some other implementation  such as Watch for object properties changes in JavaScript  - for other browsers  that will do the trick   The code will look like this   window location watch       hash       function id oldVal newVal           console log  the window s hash value has changed from   oldval   to   newVal              Then you can test it   var myHashLink    home   window location   window location         myHashLink    And of course that will trigger your observer function

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I ve been using path js for my client side routing  I ve found it to be quite succinct and lightweight  it s also been published to NPM too   and makes use of hash based navigation   path js NPM  path js GitHub

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The only way to really do this  and is how the  reallysimplehistory  does this   is by setting an interval that keeps checking the current hash  and comparing it against what it was before  we do this and let subscribers subscribe to a changed event that we fire if the hash changes   its not perfect but browsers really don t support this event natively     Update to keep this answer fresh   If you are using jQuery  which today should be somewhat foundational for most  then a nice solution is to use the abstraction that jQuery gives you by using its events system to listen to hashchange events on the window object     window  on  hashchange   function            work          The nice thing here is you can write code that doesn t need to even worry about hashchange support  however you DO need to do some magic  in form of a somewhat lesser known jQuery feature jQuery special events   With this feature you essentially get to run some setup code for any event  the first time somebody attempts to use the event in any way  such as binding to the event    In this setup code you can check for native browser support and if the browser doesn t natively implement this  you can setup a single timer to poll for changes  and trigger the jQuery event   This completely unbinds your code from needing to understand this support problem  the implementation of a special event of this kind is trivial  to get a simple 98  working version   but why do that when somebody else has already

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HTML5 specifies a hashchange event   This event is now supported by all modern browsers  Support was added in the following browser versions    Internet Explorer 8 Firefox 3 6 Chrome 5 Safari 5 Opera 10 6

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There are a lot of tricks to deal with History and window location hash in IE browsers    As original question said  if you go from page a html b to a html c  and then hit the back button  the browser doesn t know that page has changed  Let me say it with an example  window location href will be  a html c   no matter if you are in a html b or a html c  Actually  a html b and a html c are stored in history only if elements   lt a name   b  gt   and   lt a name   c  gt   exists previously in the page  However  if you put an iframe inside a page  navigate from a html b to a html c in that iframe and then hit the back button  iframe contentWindow document location href changes as expected  If you use  document domain something  in your code  then you can t access to iframe contentWindow document open     and many History Managers does that    I know this isn t a real response  but maybe IE-History notes are useful to somebody

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Firefox has had an onhashchange event since 3 6  See window onhashchange

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