Question

I saw some of websites executes a JavaScript function based on has in the URL. For example,

when I access http://domain.com/jobs#test

then the website executes a function based on #test

I can do it by checking location.href, but is there a better way?

Answer 1

This is what i do:

window.onload = function(){
    var hash = (window.location.hash).replace('#', '');
    if (hash.length == 0) {
        //no hash do something
    }
    else {
        //else do something with hash
    }
}

demo: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/XCjpy/show/#test
demo2: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/XCjpy/show/
demo3: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/XCjpy/show/#testing_again