This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The hash property of the Location interface is a string containing a "#" followed by the fragment identifier of the location URL. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".
See URL.hash for more information.
A string.
Assuming the user has navigated to https://example.org#examples, the following code will log #examples:
const result = location.hash; console.log(result);
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-location-hash-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 | |
hash |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hash