Removing the fragment identifier from AngularJS urls (# symbol)

Question

Is it possible to remove the # symbol from angular.js URLs?

I still want to be able to use the browser\'s back button, etc, when I change the view and will update th

Answer 1

According to the documentation. You can use:

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true).hashPrefix('!');

NB: If your browser does not support to HTML 5. Dont worry :D it have fallback to hashbang mode. So, you don't need to check with if(window.history && window.history.pushState){ ... } manually

For example: If you click: Some URL

In HTML5 Browser: angular will automatically redirect to example.com/other

In Not HTML5 Browser: angular will automatically redirect to example.com/#!/other