How to change URL without redirect?

Question

I am trying to add country name for every link in page my website. It is redirecting two times. How can I change URL without redirecting?

$(document).on('click',function(e){
    var querystring = '?country=' + countrySelected;
    
    
    if(e.nodeName === "A"){
        window.location = window.location.href + querystring;
    }
});

Answer 1

Use the hash tag - #

var querystring = '#country=' + countrySelected;

It's used heavily in single page applications, because it doesn't redirect.

Answer 2

Navigate to fragment

To properly navigate to fragment you need a target element, marked with and id or name attribute you reference in the anchor. To be precise, following a link with #foo will scroll the element with id="foo" or else the element with name="foo".

Note: the recommendation is to not use the name attribute for this purpose. Virtually all browsers will support navigating to an element by its id attribute. Except, perhaps, old Netscape 4 (1997), IE4 (1997) or older browsers, can't test this. Making an hyperlink to a position in the page was already present in the RFC1866 of 1995.

The found element will also be made active. That implies that you can apply css to it by using the pseudo selector :active.

CSS3 also defines the pseudo selector :target to be applied on the target element.

Browser compatibility for the target pseudo selector:

• Chrome: 1+
• Chrome for Android: 51+
• UC Browser for Android: 9.9+
• iOS Safari: 3.2+
• Firefox: 3.5+
• IE: 9+
• Opera Mini: All
• Samsung Internet: 4+
• Android Browser: 2.1+
• Safari: 3.2+
• Edge: 12+
• Opera: 10.1+

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History API

If navigating to fragment isn't good enough for you, consider using the history API. I'm Taking this example from the MDN:

Suppose http://example.org/foo.html executes the following JavaScript:

var stateObj = { foo: "bar" };
history.pushState(stateObj, "page 2", "bar.html");

This will cause the URL bar to display http://example.org/bar.html, but won't cause the browser to load bar.html or even check that bar.html exists.

Read more at diveintohtml5.info and css-tricks.com.

Browser compatibility for History API:

• Chrome: 5+
• Chrome for Android: 51+
• UC Browser for Android: 9.9+
• iOS Safari: 5.0-5.1+
• Firefox: 4+
• IE: 10+
• Opera Mini: None
• Samsung Internet: 4+
• Android Browser: 4.2-4.3+
• Safari: 6+
• Edge: 12+
• Opera: 11.5+

Dive Into HTML5 suggests the following method to detect compatibility:

function supports_history_api() {
  return !!(window.history && history.pushState);
}

The idea is that window.history and history.pushState wouldn't have been defined in a browser that doesn't support the History API.

Answer 3

You can use history API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/History

history.pushState([data], [title], [url]);

var querystring = 'country=' + countrySelected;

history.pushState("", document.title, querystring);

Ref: https://css-tricks.com/using-the-html5-history-api/

Answer 4

Does the webpage do something different if you are in a different country? If it does, then it would require the browser to load the page that is for the selected country(thereby requiring a redirect). If the webpage does something different for the selected country, but it requires another parameter to actually do something that requires a country-specific addition to the URL, then you would be better off with something like:

var countrystring = '?country=" + countrySelected;
// code to make var querystring = the rest of 
// the requirements for the country to do something
// and your code to verify what the user has entered
addstring = countrystring + querystring;
window.location = window.location.href +addstring;