How can I change the page URL without refreshing the page?

Question

How do I change the URL without refreshing the page?

I\'ve built a website with CodeIginer and I want to implement AJAX and JQuery in one of my pages. The problem is

Answer 1

Use hash tags via Javascript, so in the button's click event handler: location.hash = "param2" Which will change http://example.com/mypage/#whatever to http://example.com/mypage/#param2

Of course, you could also put your "folders" after the hash, so, with a base url of http://example.com/ you then add: location.hash = "/MyPage/MySubPage/MyInfo"; which changes it to http://example.com/#/MyPage/MySubPage/MyInfo