Question

I’m building a web app for Sign In / Registration etc, and do not want the page to have to refresh.

http://www.mysite.com

I know how to set a hash on the URL without refreshing the page:

location.hash

to give: http://www.mysite.com/#signin

But what I want: http://www.mysite.com/signin

Without the hash so it’s SEO friendly. Also, once I set that. How in JavaScript can I read the first path after the / so I can detect SignIn, Register,AboutUs etc, and show the appropriate content?

Thanks!

Answer 1

document.location = "signin";

This will refresh the page. There’s no way around it without using an anchor (hash).

Then to read the page you’re on:

var page = document.location;
var path = page.pathname;

if (path == "signin") {
    // do something
}