I can't get window.location.hash = location.hash
to work in Safari.
I'm using javascript to wrap the contents of my page with a scrollable DIV, placed below the navigation bar in my webpage. Since the scrollbar's location gets reset when the javascript runs, I'm losing the original hash location that the URL set. I need to re-cue the hash location without reloading the page using javascript, so I'm using window.location.hash = location.hash
. It works in IE8, Firefox, and Opera, but it doesn't work in Safari. (I'll assume Chrome, too, but I haven't check). Any suggestions?
Hint: I like jQuery.
Webkit has two oddities that prevent window.location.hash = location.hash
from working normally.
- Webkit responds to
window.location.href
instead of window.location.hash
(like all the other browsers do). Curiously, webkit
can still read the URL's hash
tag using location.hash
- Webkit has a documented bug where the href
location
has to be set to the same location twice before the browser will go to the new location. Bug report here.
This code solved my problem: (using jQuery).
$(document).ready(function() {
gotoHASH()
};
function gotoHASH() {
if (location.hash) {
if ( $.browser.webkit == false ) {
window.location.hash = location.hash;
} else {
window.location.href = location.hash;
}
}
};
I ended up with
window.location.hash = "";
window.location.hash = "myanchor";
This worked fine in all desktop browsers I tested in and on iOS and Android chrome.
Set location.hash to something else first and immediately set it back.
var t = window.location.hash;
window.location.hash = "non-existant-id";
window.location.hash = t;
Before JavaScript changes the orginal hash location, get the scroll position using
var st = $(window).scrollTop().
When you want to restore the scroll location, use
$(window).scrollTop(st);