How to prevent page redirect?

Prevent page redirect when using hash tag

• Is there any way to redirect a page to a specific hash but prevent the redirect if the page is reloaded with a hash already present? Preferably with javascript? For example: typing in www.mysite.com redirects to ---> www.mysite.com/index.html#news then the user clicks a link that navigates to a new location further down the same page to: www.mysite.com/index.html#articles what I want is to prevent the redirect upon refresh so that if the user refreshes the page they remain on #articles rather than being redirected back up to #news. essentially the only purpose for the redirect is to take people to #news only if the url is typed in without a hash(#).

• Answer:

  You can inspect the window.location.hash property and set the location href based on its value. For example: <script type="text/javascript"> // Redirect to "#news" if there is no hash in the URL. if (window.location.hash == '') { window.location.href = 'http://www.mysite.com/index.html#news'; } </script> Incidentally, it seems that you can use either https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location or https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Document.location which appear to do the same thing. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/948227/should-i-use-window-navigate-or-document-location-in-javascript (window or document).