Making browsers ignore the URL hash when the back button is clicked

Question

For example, if an user is on http://example.com, then the user goes to http://example.com#comments. If the user clicks "back" on his browser, how can I make him "ignore" http://example.com and go directly to the URL that he visited before that?

I have jQuery loaded.

Answer 1

Instead of having a link like:

<a href='#comments'>Link</a>

Use location.replace() to "overwrite" the record of http://example.com in the browser's history.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location

Example:

HTML:

<a id='commentsLink'>Link</a>

JavaScript:

$("#commentsLink").click(function(){
    window.location.replace("#comments");
});