The following code is giving me an error in Chrome. It seems that window.location.href does not return a String, but that seems crazy.

Here is the code:

var theUrl = "" + window.location.href;
var hashValue = theUrl.contains("#") ? theUrl.split('#')[1] : null; (This is line 6)

This returns the following error in Chrome:

Uncaught TypeError: Object someUrl#someHash has no method 'contains' myFile.js:6

(anonymous function) faq.js:6
k jquery.min.js:2
l.fireWith jquery.min.js:2
p.extend.ready jquery.min.js:2
D

Any ideas?

EDIT: also attempted with document.URL to no avail.

The following code is giving me an error in Chrome. It seems that window.location.href does not return a String, but that seems crazy.

Here is the code:

var theUrl = "" + window.location.href;
var hashValue = theUrl.contains("#") ? theUrl.split('#')[1] : null; (This is line 6)

This returns the following error in Chrome:

Uncaught TypeError: Object someUrl#someHash has no method 'contains' myFile.js:6

(anonymous function) faq.js:6
k jquery.min.js:2
l.fireWith jquery.min.js:2
p.extend.ready jquery.min.js:2
D

Any ideas?

EDIT: also attempted with document.URL to no avail.

• javascript
• google-chrome
• dom

• what does typeof(window.location.href) return ? – lostsource Commented Feb 4, 2013 at 22:04
• Can you make a repeatable jsfiddle test case? – Mikko Ohtamaa Commented Feb 4, 2013 at 22:06
• @MikkoOhtamaa Trying to now. – thatidiotguy Commented Feb 4, 2013 at 22:10
• @lostsource It returns string all lower case. – thatidiotguy Commented Feb 4, 2013 at 22:10

3 Answers 3

At the moment the String.contains method appears to be only supported by Firefox 19

String.contains - JavaScript | MDN

That page also mentions some inpatibilities with MooTools, maybe your problem is related. For the time being you can retrieve the hash value like this

var hashValue = window.location.hash.substr(1) || null;

.indexOf might also be useful instead of .contains

hashValue = theUrl.indexOf('#') > -1 ? ... : ...;

The string object does not have a function called "contains", what you can however use is the "indexOf" function which will return a value >= 0 if the string of your interest is found in the target string, -1 otherwise.

One more ment: You can get the hash value using window.location.hash, so instead of doing whatever you are doing above, you need to do something like this:

var hashValue = window.location.hash.substr(1) || null;