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Asked: 2026-06-09T06:45:31+00:00

I have a working Angular.js app with HTML5 mode enabled. $location.Html5mode(true).hashbang(!); What I want

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I have a working Angular.js app with HTML5 mode enabled.

$location.Html5mode(true).hashbang("!");

What I want to achieve is to get some URLs or <a> tags to do the normal browsing behaviour instead of changing the URL in the address bar using HTML5 history API and handling it using Angular controllers.

I have this links:

<a href='/auth/facebook'>Sign in with Facebook</a>
<a href='/auth/twitter'>Sign in with Twitter</a>
<a href='/auth/...'>Sign in with ...</a>

And I want the browser to redirect the user to /auth/... so the user will be then redirected to an authentication service.

Is there any way I can do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Adding target="_self" works in Angular 1.0.1:

    <a target="_self" href='/auth/facebook'>Sign in with Facebook</a>

    This feature is documented (https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location – search for ‘_self’)

    If you’re curious, look at the angular source (line 5365 @ v1.0.1). The click hijacking only happens if !elm.attr('target') is true.

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