Could a page display diferrent content if the URL hash changes?

Question

How could a page display different content based on the URL hash?

I\'m not talking about the browser scrolling down to display the anchored section, but something li

Answer 1

Oh yes - it's becoming a common pattern to handle page-state-to-URL persistence when content is AJAX driven.

Javascript can access this value via window.location.hash. Once that's done, you can perform any actions based on the value of that hash

• Show/hide nodes
• Makes other AJAX calls
• Change page titles or colors
• Swap images
• etc

Really, any DHTML effect.