如何在不重新加载页面的情况下更改目标窗口的location.hash？

Question

I'm currently using one page to spawn a new window, with a timed playback URLs in it. Many of the pages it's loading respond to hash navigation. I'm doing this like:

window.open(url,"playback");

As we play through the URLs, we should see the page respond accordingly. The problem I've run into however, is that the window.open() call actually reloads the page when the hash is changed.

For instance, loading " pageA.htm ", then " pageB.htm#tab2 " works flawlessly. The issue however is that when I try to go from " pageB.htm#tab2 " to " pageB.htm#tab3 "; the page reloads (responding properly to hash) completely instead of just firing "onhashchange" as I'd expect.

Is there an alternative to window.open() that I should call for hash-only changes, that will prevent full page reload?

Edit: The final solution looks something like this:

playbackWindow = window.open(url,"playback");

Then when we want to change the hash:

playbackWindow.location.href = "poundIt";

Answer 1

You can't use window.open to change the hash without reloading the page. Simply change the value of window.location.hash instead.

Answer 2

window.location.hash = "This"; 

应该可以。