https://hugo.curtiscode.dev/tags/hastag/Recent content in hastag on Curtis TimsonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-GBSun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://hugo.curtiscode.dev/post/js/reading-url-hashtag-values/Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://hugo.curtiscode.dev/post/js/reading-url-hashtag-values/URL hashtags were primarily used in order to position the page scroll on load to a particular element. With javascript we can access what the value of the hashtag is on page load. if (window.location.hash){ var hash = window.location.hash.substring(1); alert("hashtag value is '" + hash + "'"); } This snippet first checks that the URL contains a hashtag, and then uses substring() to remove the hash (#) character from the start of the string.