How to change URL in browser without navigating away from page?

Question

I am writing a complex AJAX application at the moment and the entire site has clean URLs. At the moment PHP creates the basic layout for each page however I don\'t want to h

Answer 1

You can do it with history.pushState, but only in browsers that support it. Just try the following line in your browsers JavaScript-Console.

history.pushState({},"URL Rewrite Example","https://stackoverflow.com/example")

More on that in The pushState() method (Mozilla Developer)

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