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copied!<p>I'm afraid it might be <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1263509/potential-problems-setting-window-location-hash#comment-1098554">impossible</a> but is there a way to change the hash value of a URL <strong>without leaving an entry in the browser's history</strong> and <strong>without reloading</strong>? Or do the equivalent?</p> <p>As far as specifics go, I was developing some basic hash navigation along the lines of:</p> <pre><code>//hash nav -- works with js-tabs var getHash = window.location.hash; var hashPref = "tab-"; function useHash(newHash) { //set js-tab according to hash newHash = newHash.replace('#'+hashPref, ''); $("#tabs li a[href='"+ newHash +"']").click(); } function setHash(newHash) { //set hash according to js-tab window.location.hash = hashPref + newHash; //THIS IS WHERE I would like to REPLACE the location.hash //without a history entry } // ... a lot of irrelavent tabs js and then.... //make tabs work $("#tabs.js-tabs a").live("click", function() { var showMe = $(this).attr("href"); $(showMe).show(); setHash(showMe); return false; }); //hash nav on ready .. if hash exists, execute if ( getHash ){ useHash(getHash); } </code></pre> <p>Using jQuery, obviously. The idea is that <em>in this specific instance</em> 1) making the user go back over every tab change could effectively 'break the back button' by piling up needless references, and 2) not retaining which tab they're <em>currently on</em> if they hit refresh is an annoyance.</p>

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