Anchors in links

Question

Given:

Tom browses to products/1 page where a #special-offer section exists.

Does Backbone allow Tom to share a link with Fred including the anchor to the special-offer section: http://super.app/products/1#special-offer

Will Fred be redirected to http://super.app/#products/1 (eg: without the #special-offer)?

In other words, does Backbone allow to use anchors?

abernier · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-04T17:51:32.663

It appears that YES:

anchors can be used with pushState-enabled browsers : http://bl.ocks.org/abernier/raw/3183257/product1.html#special-offer
while for IE<10, it is converted to http://bl.ocks.org/abernier/raw/3183257/#product1.html eg: without #special-offer

The only thing I had to take care about was to disable anchors for hashes-based history browsers, by:

if (!Backbone.history._hasPushState) {
  $('body').delegate('a[href^=#]', 'click', function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
  });
}

fguillen · Answer 2 · 2012-07-26T15:48:29.230

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Backbone has a very customizable use of hash URL fragments within its modules Router and History.

edited Jul 26 '12 at 15:48

answered Jul 26 '12 at 15:42

fguillen

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Funny thing is there are anchors in your links :) but unfortunately, Backbone's documentation you're referring here doesn't deal with anchors. So it leaves my question unanswered... – abernier Jul 26 '12 at 15:56
I have been using _hash-based URL fragments_ in old Backbone projects, so I think it supports it, maybe I'm understanding wrong your _URL anchor_ description but I think I don't. The documentation in my links is almost hiding the comments about _hash-based URL fragments_ because it is adding more importance to the use of [HTML5 history API](http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html), but you can read _"Until recently, hash fragments (#page) were used to provide these permalinks..."_ and _"...the Router handles graceful fallback and transparent translation to the fragment version of the URL"_ – fguillen Jul 26 '12 at 16:17

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