What is the difference between "window.location.href" and "window.location.hash"?

I learned "window.location.hash" new and tried in my jquery code instead of "window.location.href" and both of them gave same results.

Code is here :

window.location.href = ($(e.currentTarget).attr("href")); window.location.hash = ($(e.currentTarget).attr("href")); 

What is the difference between them?

6 Answers

For a URL like

• hash - returns the part of the URL that follows the # symbol, including the # symbol. You can listen for the hashchange event to get notified of changes to the hash in supporting browsers.

  Returns: #test 

• href - returns the entire URL.

  Returns: 

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href = 

hash = #Page 

href is the url

hash is only the anchor after the url

is the href

"#anchor" is the hash

The hash property returns the anchor portion of a URL, including the hash sign (#).

hash and href are both properties of the window.location object. hash is the part of the URL from the # on (or an empty string if there is no #), while href is a string representation of the whole URL.

Here is the simple example for difference between window.location.href and window.location.hash

For the URL :

• href:
• hash: #!create