Get string after the sign #

Question

How can I get the string after the sign #:

// get current url
var url      = window.location.href;
// output: //http://www.test.com/Tests/pagination.php?page=4#tab2
alert(url);

How can I get the name tab2 which is after #

Thanks in advance

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11662693/how-do-i-get-the-value-after-hash-from-a-url-using-jquery — Khawer Zeshan, Dec 25 '14 at 10:40
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3861076/how-can-i-extract-text-after-hash-in-the-href-part-from-a-tag — Adil Aliyev, Dec 25 '14 at 10:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 25 '14 at 10:40

Use this code:

window.location.hash

Return the anchor part of a URL. Assume that the current URL is http://www.example.com/test.htm#part2: #part2

The Window.location read-only property returns a Location object with information about the current location of the document.
Though Window.location is a read-only Location object, you can also assign a DOMString to it. This means that you can work with location as if it were a string in most cases: location = 'http://www.example.com' is a synonym of location.href = 'http://www.example.com'.

Get string after the sign #

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