What does #! mean in a website link mean?

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Hashbang versus URI parse

What would the difference between example.com/index.html and http://www.example.com/#!stories be? I would love to understand what the significance of the #! is?

[hashbang](http://www.hashbang.org/) (shebang, pound!, etc.) It's usually part of a dynamic loading URI interface, with the `#!` part having to do with the dynamic loading link part. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6523140/hashbang-versus-uri-parse — Jared Farrish, Jul 28 '12 at 22:27
@Jared Farrish: shebang is used for script headers and has nothing to do with links. — Karoly Horvath, Jul 28 '12 at 22:28
@KarolyHorvath - My point was that's what people sometimes call it. Some bitch about hashbang, whatever. — Jared Farrish, Jul 28 '12 at 22:29
@KarolyHorvath - I concur, your excaliburness. `;)` Good point, huzza, you got it dead-on. If you clicked the link in my first comment, maybe you would have realized I excaliburnated the marklar. — Jared Farrish, Jul 28 '12 at 22:39
@Jared Farrish: I'm not a native speaker, no idea what you intended to say... — Karoly Horvath, Jul 28 '12 at 22:44

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '12 at 22:30

It's a URL fragment. It's used by the client to indicate how the content at this URL should be handled. In most cases, it tells the browser to seek to a certain named anchor that's on the page. Sometimes, with Javascript, it is used to reload the page and allow some script to re-run. And in some cases, it's used to make AJAX applications crawlable by google

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '12 at 22:29

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The # in links is an skiplink to an ancor inside the HTML.

Sometimes this kind of links are used by javascript frameworks like jquery.

answered Jul 28 '12 at 22:29

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What does #! mean in a website link mean?

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