How to set the fragment part of a URL
Learn how to set the value of the fragment portion of a URL
I’ve had the need to programmatically change the fragment part of a URL
That’s the part after the #
hash symbol.
I was on index.html
and I wanted to change the URL to something like index.html#second
.
The reason for this was a bit unusual, but let’s say I had a table of contents but the links weren’t working as I wanted.
Here’s how I did it:
window.location.hash = 'second'
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