How do I modify the URL without reloading the page?
This can now be done in Chrome, Safari, Firefox 4+, and Internet Explorer 10pp4+!
See this question's answer for more information:
Updating address bar with new URL without hash or reloading the page
Example:
function processAjaxData(response, urlPath){
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = response.html;
document.title = response.pageTitle;
window.history.pushState({"html":response.html,"pageTitle":response.pageTitle},"", urlPath);
}
You can then use window.onpopstate
to detect the back/forward button navigation:
window.onpopstate = function(e){
if(e.state){
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = e.state.html;
document.title = e.state.pageTitle;
}
};
For a more in-depth look at manipulating browser history, see this MDN article.
How to change URL without refreshing the page?
I think you might be looking for history.pushState
history.pushState([data], [title], [URL]);
Using your example of https://featurepoints.com/
history.pushState(null, 'FeaturePoints Login', 'https://featurepoints.com/login');
Source and more details https://css-tricks.com/using-the-html5-history-api/
Change URL without refresh the page
Update
Based on Manipulating the browser history, passing the empty string as second parameter of pushState
method (aka title) should be safe against future changes to the method, so it's better to use pushState
like this:
history.pushState(null, '', '/en/step2');
You can read more about that in mentioned article
Original Answer
Use history.pushState
like this:
history.pushState(null, null, '/en/step2');
- More info (MDN article): Manipulating the browser history
- Can I use
- Maybe you should take a look @ Does Internet Explorer support pushState and replaceState?
Update 2 to answer Idan Dagan's comment:
Why not using
history.replaceState()
?
From MDN
history.replaceState() operates exactly like history.pushState() except that replaceState() modifies the current history entry instead of creating a new one
That means if you use replaceState
, yes the url will be changed but user can not use Browser's Back button to back to prev. state(s) anymore (because replaceState
doesn't add new entry to history) and it's not recommended and provide bad UX.
Update 3 to add window.onpopstate
So, as this answer got your attention, here is additional info about manipulating the browser history, after using pushState
, you can detect the back/forward button navigation by using window.onpopstate
like this:
window.onpopstate = function(e) {
// ...
};
As the first argument of pushState
is an object, if you passed an object
instead of null
, you can access that object in onpopstate
which is very handy, here is how:
window.onpopstate = function(e) {
if(e.state) {
console.log(e.state);
}
};
Update 4 to add Reading the current state:
When your page loads, it might have a non-null state object, you can read the state of the current history entry without waiting for a popstate
event using the history.state
property like this:
console.log(history.state);
Bonus: Use following to check history.pushState
support:
if (history.pushState) {
// \o/
}
how to fully change url without reloading the page to new url?
That is not possible for a good reason. You can get more info about this here: Same-origin policy
Change URl without page refresh NEXT.JS
With the help of shallow-routing
change of URL without doing a page reload is possible. It can be enabled by passing explicit option object as third argument to Router.push
, i.e { shallow: true }
From the docs
Shallow routing allows you to change the URL without running data fetching methods again, that includes
getServerSideProps
,getStaticProps
, andgetInitialProps
.You'll receive the updated
pathname
and thequery
via therouter
object (added byuseRouter
orwithRouter
), without losing state.
For example, this how you would update the query param sortBy
for pathname /products
with the help of shallow-routing
.
Router.push({
pathname: '/products',
query: { sortBy: 'price' }
},
undefined, { shallow: true }
)
But there are a few caveats It is not possible to do shallow-routing
between different pages, it works only for same page URL changes. See the caveat section for more details.
For example, you can update a query param for page /product
page, but it won't be possible if you try to do shallow-routing
from /product
to /product/[slug]
because they are two distinct pages.
// page will reload because shallow-routing not possible between the pages
Router.push('/product', '/product/some-product?sortBy=price', { shallow: true })
Changing the URL without reloading the page
You will have to add hash #
if you want to prevent page from reloading.
The css-tricks.com has an excellent screencast on that, have a look at:
Best Practices with Dynamic Content
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