I need to pass a parameter into the URL and at the same time prevent page from reloading when I click any <a>
tag with a blank href
attribute (<a href="">
)
Is there a way to do this with JS/jQuery?
I have this jQuery already
$('.list-group-item a').click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
});
But when I click <a href="inbox/1">Message</a>
(any anchor with an href) preventDefault stops that value from being passed into the url.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
window.location.hash="inbox/1"
can update the hash value in the url. This can be done with the event preventDefault code.
Try the following code
$('.list-group-item a').click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var url = $(this).attr('href');
window.history.replaceState("object or string", "Title",url); // this will change your url
});
For More details http://spoiledmilk.com/blog/html5-changing-the-browser-url-without-refreshing-page/
You can use Attribute equal selector to prevent click event in case of blank href like,
$('.list-group-item a[href=""]').click(function (event) { // where href are blank
event.preventDefault();
});
And I would like to suggest don't make empty the href's
, you can place #
if no links are there.
Use jQuery's fancy selectors, especially the attribute equals one.
Using it, you can select only <a>
tags which have a blank href attribute:
$('.list-group-item a[href=""]').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
});
The $('.list-group-item a[href=""]')
selector narrows the collected elements to only those anchor tags with a class of list-group-item
and a blank href.
That means all other anchor tags will work fine.