Change location.hash and then press Back button - IE behaves differently from other browsers

Question

I change location.hash - in all browsers this behave properly - the page remains original and changes only URL without reload the page.

Pressing Back bu

Answer 1

(Moving my comment here and expanding on it a little.)

There are several other questions regarding the #hashtag history quirks with IE.

Essentially, IE doesn't treat different #hashtags as separate entries in its History object.

The best solution appears to be the jQuery History Plugin.

Note- jquery history is no longer maintained and the former maintainers recommend Jquery hashchange