Question

I’ve got an onhashchange like so…

window.addEventListener("hashchange", afunction() , false);

which calls a function on hash change.. the problem is the function itself inserts a div into the page. This seems to cause the function to infinite loop re-calling itself over and over. Is there anyway I can modify my call so that it will not do this? and only change it if the rest of the page changes? Each time the rest of the page changes I want to update my div. The page is changing via AJAX and I’m using the rest of the page to construct my div so I must wait on till it finishes regenerating.

Answer 1

This line is wrong

window.addEventListener("hashchange", afunction() , false);

It is saying take whatever afunction returns and assign it to this event.

You want to say assign a reference to afunction, that means you do not want the ()

window.addEventListener("hashchange", afunction , false);