Changing the URL in the address bar with JQuery

Changing the URL in the address bar with JQuery is quite straight forward. The purpose of this technique is to resolve the user support for the "single page application" (i.e., all contents were loaded by JQuery).

I have modified the technique used by the following article in order to avoid the security error raised by the browser. It appends the "anchor" to the URL.

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangeUrl(page, url) {
            if (typeof (history.pushState) != "undefined") {
                var i = window.location.href.indexOf('#');
                if (i > 0) {
                    url = window.location.href.substring(0, i) + url;
                }
                else {
                    url = window.location.href + url;
                }
               
                var obj = { Page: page, Url: url };
                history.pushState(obj, obj.Page, obj.Url);
            } else {
                alert("Browser does not support HTML5.");
            }
        }
        $(function () {
            $("#button1").click(function () {
                ChangeUrl('Page1', '#Page1');
            });
            $("#button2").click(function () {
                ChangeUrl('Page2', '#Page2');
            });
            $("#button3").click(function () {
                ChangeUrl('Page3', '#Page3');
            });
        });
    </script>
    <input type="button" value="Page1" id="button1" />
    <input type="button" value="Page2" id="button2" />
    <input type="button" value="Page3" id="button3" />


Reference

http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Change-URL-in-Browser-Address-Bar-without-reloading-using-JavaScript-and-jQuery.aspx