I am using window.History.pushstate. It works fine in Chrome, but in IE8 it appends the path #. Please help.

Below is my code snippet:

  var History = window.History; 
  History.pushState(null, null, "/abc"); 

I am using window.History.pushstate. It works fine in Chrome, but in IE8 it appends the path #. Please help.

Below is my code snippet:

  var History = window.History; 
  History.pushState(null, null, "/abc"); 

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• 4 window.History isn’t supported in IE 8 (or, indeed, IE9. – Paul D. Waite Commented Mar 18, 2014 at 12:37
• 1 window.History and window.history is not the same thing. window.history uses the HTML5 history API which ie8 can't use. window.History referes to History.js (see github./browserstate/history.js by Benjamin Lupton). History.js is almost the same as HTML5 History API only with fallback mechanisms for HTML4 only supported browsers. – Avec Commented Apr 14, 2014 at 9:28

2 Answers 2

You wrote window.History. Did you include history.js by Benjamin Lupton? window.History and window.history is not the same thing as window.History referes to history.js and that makes the history backwards patible with html4 browsers.

Take a look at these two:

• jQuery & history.js example
• jquery.history.js VS jquery-hashchange

you can refer below answer

IE history push state

IE9 and below don't support pushState. You have an exception when calling the following line:

window.history.pushState(null, null, pathFullPage);

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'pushState' ?terms_and_conditions, line 62 character 21

You may probably be interested in looking at some workarounds discussed here: Emulate/polyfill history.pushstate() in IE