This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The newURL read-only property of the HashChangeEvent interface returns the new URL to which the window is navigating.
A string.
window.addEventListener("hashchange", (event) => {
console.log(`Hash changed to ${event.newURL}`);
});
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-hashchangeevent-newurl-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
newURL |
8 | 12 | 6 | ≤12.1 | 5.1 | 18 | 6 | ≤12.1 | 5 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HashChangeEvent/newURL