Question

The following code is giving me an error in Chrome. It seems that window.location.href does not return a String, but that seems crazy.

Here is the code:

var theUrl = "" + window.location.href;
var hashValue = theUrl.contains("#") ? theUrl.split('#')[1] : null; (This is line 6)

This returns the following error in Chrome:

Uncaught TypeError: Object someUrl#someHash has no method 'contains' myFile.js:6

(anonymous function) faq.js:6
k jquery.min.js:2
l.fireWith jquery.min.js:2
p.extend.ready jquery.min.js:2
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Any ideas?

EDIT: also attempted with document.URL to no avail.

Answer 1

At the moment the String.contains method appears to be only supported by Firefox 19

String.contains – JavaScript | MDN

That page also mentions some incompatibilities with MooTools, maybe your problem is related. For the time being you can retrieve the hash value like this

var hashValue = window.location.hash.substr(1) || null;