If I have already a hash in my addressbar like e.g. domain#whatever and I call:

top.location.hash = "";

the #wathever is transformed into domain# without anything.

Is it possible to pletely remove the hash? So there is no # left.

Because if I call top.location.hash = ""; the page jumps to it's top, because a # is passed to the url. I want to prevent that.

If I have already a hash in my addressbar like e.g. domain.#whatever and I call:

top.location.hash = "";

the #wathever is transformed into domain.# without anything.

Is it possible to pletely remove the hash? So there is no # left.

Because if I call top.location.hash = ""; the page jumps to it's top, because a # is passed to the url. I want to prevent that.

• javascript
• hash

• without reloading the page? I'd say no – Guillaume86 Commented Mar 21, 2011 at 20:59

4 Answers 4

it's possible with history.pushState, e.g.:

history.pushState({}, '', './');

Of course it's IE<10 inpatible, but works for me :-)

top.location = ''

should do that, but it will cause a page reload. I don't think there's any way to remove it programmatically.

window.location = window.location.href.replace( /#.*/, "");

Unfortunately there is no way to reliably do so without causing the page to refresh, in which case you could use the location.href property.