# Hash/anchor in url prevents further url updates
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hash-anchor-in-url-prevents-further-url-updates/122068
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [7월 4, 2019, 5:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hash-anchor-in-url-prevents-further-url-updates/122068 "2019-07-04T05:31:27Z")
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### Author:  [@nickvaneijk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nickvaneijk)
#### Post date: [7월 4, 2019, 5:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hash-anchor-in-url-prevents-further-url-updates/122068/1 "2019-07-04T05:31:27Z")
On our discourse powered website we have a separate section which links to certain headings using an anchor/hash in the url, [https://mysite.com/my-page#faq](https://mysite.com/my-page#faq)
When a user follows this link, the url is updated to that value, but navigating further no longer updates the url.
Is there a reason why the hash prevents any url updates? This currently breaks our app after some links in our app, eg ‘understand.html#understand’
This behavior can also be seen on any discourse powered forum, with a minimal reproducible example below.
1. go to [https://meta.discourse.org/](https://meta.discourse.org/)
2. append #foo to the url, so: [https://meta.discourse.org/#foo](https://meta.discourse.org/#foo)
3. Click on any topic, you will see the url does not update
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [7월 4, 2019, 6:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hash-anchor-in-url-prevents-further-url-updates/122068/2 "2019-07-04T18:58:51Z")
I think this one involves some Javascript debugging and would be best suited for @j.jaffeux.
The issue here is that our router uses hashes in some URLs (in particular, jumping to parts of posts, and I believe faq does it too.) I assume when it’s not a hash we know about somehow it’s breaking stuff, when we should be able to ignore it.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [7월 10, 2019, 8:45오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hash-anchor-in-url-prevents-further-url-updates/122068/4 "2019-07-10T08:45:55Z")
@eviltrout I think that should do it:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7872](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7872)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [7월 10, 2019, 6:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hash-anchor-in-url-prevents-further-url-updates/122068/5 "2019-07-10T18:48:47Z")
Merged!