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Sean Malloy
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Sean Malloy
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Posted by Sean Malloy
Sean Malloy
Courses Plus Student 4,520 Points

How can I insert the href link so the address bar does not show the actual anchor address? ex: website.com/#my_link

For a single page site, when linking and scrolling within the same page, how do you prevent the browser address from show the actual anchor link id?

Bradley James Hayes
Bradley James Hayes
1,641 Points

If it is a single page site you should be using Javascript:; in the href because you're not really linking out but having the content changed. Maybe look into AJAX, PHP or AngularJS.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

If you position the page using JavaScript instead of using the link, the browser address will remain unchanged. There's an element method called scrollIntoView that makes this pretty easy, but it's classified as "experimental" and doesn't work on all browsers. So it might be better to stick with more primitive methods. Example:

yourLink.onclick = e => {
  e.preventDefault();
  //document.getElementById("targetElementID").scrollIntoView();  <- experimental, not recommended
  window.scroll(0, document.getElementById("targetElementID").getBoundingClientRect().top);
};