“[removed].hash = location.hash” does not work in Webkit (Safari & Chrome)

Question

I can\'t get window.location.hash = location.hash to work in Safari.

I\'m using javascript to wrap the contents of my page with a scrollable DIV, placed

Answer 1

Webkit has two oddities that prevent window.location.hash = location.hash from working normally.

1. Webkit responds to window.location.href instead of window.location.hash (like all the other browsers do). Curiously, webkit can still read the URL's hash tag using location.hash
2. Webkit has a documented bug where the href location has to be set to the same location twice before the browser will go to the new location. Bug report here.

This code solved my problem: (using jQuery).

$(document).ready(function() {
    gotoHASH()
};

function gotoHASH() {
    if (location.hash) {
        if ( $.browser.webkit == false ) {
            window.location.hash = location.hash;
        } else {
            window.location.href = location.hash;
        }
    }
};