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Does window.location.hash contain the encoded or decoded representation of the url part?
When I open the same url (http://localhost/something/#%C3%BC where %C3%BCtranslates to ü) in Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8, I get different values for document.location.hash:
#%C3%BC #ü Is there a way to get one variant in both browsers?
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The hash property of the Location interface returns a string containing a '#' followed by the fragment identifier of the URL — the ID on the page that the URL is trying to target. The fragment is not percent-decoded. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "" .
The hash property sets or returns the anchor part of the href attribute value. The href attribute specifies the destination of a link in an area. The anchor part is the part of the URL after the hash sign (#). Note: When this property is used to set the anchor part, do not include the hash sign (#).
The decodeURIComponent() function decodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) component previously created by encodeURIComponent or by a similar routine.
The hash of a url can be found by creating a new URL Javascript object from the URL string, and then using its hash property to get the value of the hash fragment. Note that this will include the # character also. If the url does not contains a hash, then an empty string "" will be returned.
Unfortunately, this is a bug in Firefox as it decodes location.hash an extra time when it is accessed. For example, try this in Firefox:
location.hash = "#%30"; location.hash === "#0"; // This is wrong, it should be "#%30" The only cross-browser solution is to just use (location.href.split("#")[1] || "") instead for getting the hash. Setting the hash using location.hash seems to work correctly for all browsers that support location.hash though.
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