Stop default hashtag behavior with jquery

Question

I\'m using the following code to append a hashtag to the end of a url. That way someone can copy that url and take them back to that page, with certain divs visable.

Answer 1

It depends. If you want to prevent it when the anchor is clicked, use this:

$("a.live").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault(); // Prevents browsers default action
    window.location.hash = 'live'; 
    $("#live").slideDown();
});

If you want to prevent it from scrolling to the hash when the page is loaded, I'm not sure how you would prevent that.