Remove pound symbol from url django

Question

So, I have a standard bootstrap one page site. I am using django as the backend. for each section of the site, I use the html id I give to it to navigate to it from the navbar.

the only problem is that I cannot figure out how to clean the pound sign from the url. I still want something like:

example.com/contact

navigate to the contact section automatically, however, right it looks like:

example.com/#contact

How do I go about changing this? Is it something I need to add to the django urls.py file?

You can use this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/824349/modify-the-url-without-reloading-the-page — mrash, May 12 '18 at 06:56
I don't understand how Django is involved in this questions; do you want to do a front-end URL hashchange? Or do you want to pass `#contact` to the backend? — rtindru, May 12 '18 at 07:16
Browsers manage #contact of url and use it as page bookmarks [https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp]. you cannot send it to backend. — mrash, May 12 '18 at 07:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '18 at 13:24

How do I go about changing this? Is it something I need to add to the django urls.py file?

No.

# in URL is a Fragment identifier.

From https://blog.httpwatch.com/2011/03/01/6-things-you-should-know-about-fragment-urls/

... fragment identifier is only used by the browser – it doesn’t affect which resource is returned from the server.

As it's used by the browser you cannot do much about it unless you change your navigation implementation.

Remove pound symbol from url django

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