How to detect if URL has changed after hash in JavaScript

Question

How can I check if a URL has changed in JavaScript? For example, websites like GitHub, which use AJAX, will append page information after a # symbol to create a unique URL w

Answer 1

Another simple way you can do this is by adding a click event, through a class name to the anchor tags on the page to detect when it has been clicked, then you can now use the window.location.href to get the url data which you can use to run your ajax request to the server. Simple and Easy.