Comments on: Remove Anchors from a Url in Javascript

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:56:13 +0000

Actually, it DOES get easier than that! Check this out:

url = url.split(“#”)[0]

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:35:06 +0000

Thanks for the snippet. I am working on disabling the current page link in my navigation menu, and this snippet along with some jQuery goodness worked perfectly for helping my compare urls whether or not they have anchors.

By: Jelani Harris

Jelani Harris — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:49:35 +0000

@Jessica

Hello there. I’d like to help, but I’m not sure what your problem is. Could you be more descriptive?

By: Jessica Lowe

Jessica Lowe — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:36:42 +0000

Hia, I have tried to use the js code as above and it doesnt seem to be working for me…. could you please help. Thanks alot.

Jess

test

//Grab our current Url
var url = window.location.toString();
//Remove anchor from url
var anchor_index = url.indexOf(‘#’);
if (anchor_index != -1) {
url = url.substring(0, anchor_index);
}

Test5

This is a test

By: Alan S.

Alan S. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:59:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing and posting this bit of Javascript code! It was very helpful and worked perfectly for some similar functionality that I needed today.

By: Jelani Harris

Jelani Harris — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:32:41 +0000

I’ve never used greasemonkey, but if it’s javascript then you should be able to use this code somehow.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:14:46 +0000

Hi. I was looking for a greasemonkey userscript that would enable me to automatically cull anchors from a specific site. What I would like it to do is, on that site, when I click on a link, I should get to the page I want to see and not have any anchors in the URL. Yours was the first hit on my Google search, and I tried to use your code in a bookmarklet and tried to create a GM script as well, but it did not work. Is there any way I can use the code to make it do what I want? I’d prefer an automated system of doing it, but even a bookmarklet would be very helpful.

Thanks so much!