“[removed].hash = location.hash” does not work in Webkit (Safari & Chrome)

Question

I can\'t get window.location.hash = location.hash to work in Safari.

I\'m using javascript to wrap the contents of my page with a scrollable DIV, placed

Answer 1

I ended up with

window.location.hash = "";
window.location.hash = "myanchor";

This worked fine in all desktop browsers I tested in and on iOS and Android chrome.