Updating Address Bar With New Url Without Hash or Reloading the Page

Updating address bar with new URL without hash or reloading the page

You can now do this in most "modern" browsers!

Here is the original article I read (posted July 10, 2010): HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page.

For a more in-depth look into pushState/replaceState/popstate (aka the HTML5 History API) see the MDN docs.

TL;DR, you can do this:

window.history.pushState("object or string", "Title", "/new-url");

See my answer to Modify the URL without reloading the page for a basic how-to.

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;
    }
};

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For a more in-depth look at manipulating browser history, see this MDN article.

Change URL in address bar without having to reload

You can in newer browsers; in older ones, you can only change the hash. This seems like a good article on the topic:
http://html5doctor.com/history-api/

Change URL in browser address bar without reload existing page

Here is a similar question.

Here is an 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
   );
}

How do you change the URL in the address bar without reloading the page?

You use the new HTML5 history API to push a new state.

Here's the MDN documentation and a good tutorial.

Beware that doing this is often painful (you have to manage correctly the state of your application) and it doesn't work with IE9. It's almost always combined with ajax : it's the solution to let dynamically loaded content be bookmarkable even while the whole page isn't reloaded or changed.

how to change url at address bar without reloading the page

you can't change the URL in the address bar without changing the page because to be able to do that I couldlet you visit me at http://www.imhackingyou.com/sucker but change the addressbar to read http://www.bankofamerica.com/login

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