Could a page display diferrent content if the URL hash changes?

Question

How could a page display different content based on the URL hash?

I\'m not talking about the browser scrolling down to display the anchored section, but something li

Answer 1

The answer for this question will be more or less the same as my answers for these questions:

• How to show Ajax requests in URL?
• How does Gmail handle back/forward in rich JavaScript?

In summary, two projects that you'll probably want to look at which explain the whole hashchange process and using it with ajax are:

• jQuery History (using hashes to manage your pages state and bind to changes to update your page).

• jQuery Ajaxy (ajax extension for jQuery History, to allow for complete ajax websites while being completely unobtrusive and gracefully degradable).