Is it possible to have the url change while you sc

Question

Is it possible to have the url change while you scroll down a single page with ajax? I have a website all on one page and want to have this effect.

example:

www.blablabla.com/blog

user scroll down...

www.blablabla.com/blog/entry-name

I know about hashing... can I mask the URL?

Answer 1

Yes, you can, but it's a little tricky.

If you have this on your index.html page:

  <a id="link-to-later" href="#later">Go to later</a>
  <p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p><p>lorem ipsum</p> 
  <a id="later" name="later">Some later anchor</a>

Then clicking the top link will take you to the anchor below without reloading the page and the url will be index.html#later.

By using the window.onscroll event you can hook an event to the user scrolling down the page. The event handler could include something like $('#link-to-later').click(), which would send the user's browser to point on the page with the later anchor.

You will need to do some work to keep this from being too choppy, but it is doable.

Answer 2

I know this is a bit of an older question, but browsers changed, and right now, it is possible to do what the poster requested. This means that most of the other answers are no longer valid. I'm posting a way to accomplish this so that it might help people using Google to find the correct answer.

In short, on modern browsers (browsers with HTML 5 support) you can. Please have a look at this article.

It basically boils down to the following line of code:

window.history.pushState("object or string", "Title", "/new-url");

Executing the above code will change the URL to example.com/new-url, and will help you accomplish what you wanted.

For a demo, you can take a look at the Webby Awards, where this method is used. Just scroll up or down and look at the address bare. The effect is pretty impressive.

Answer 3

No. Not sure why you would want to either.

As you mentioned, the only way would be to add it on to the page's hash, ex.

http://www.website.com/blog/#entry-name

Then to scroll to that part of the page, something like:

if (window.location.indexOf("#") > 0) {
    var entry_id = window.location.substring(window.location.indexOf("#"));
    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $(entry_id).offset().top
    }, 2000);
}

EDIT: This is long since possible with window.history.pushState.

Answer 4

it is possible using window.pushState method.

Answer 5

No, for security reasons you are not allowed to change the URL using javascript

Answer 6

what about https://github.com/browserstate/history.js/history.js

Including continued support for data, titles, replaceState. Supports jQuery, MooTools and Prototype. For HTML5 browsers this means that you can modify the URL directly, without needing to use hashes anymore.