cowboy/jquery-hashchange
This jQuery plugin enables very basic bookmarkable #hash history via a cross-browser HTML5 window.onhashchange event. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6080
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2234
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1202 stars · 252 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A jQuery plugin that provides a cross-browser window.onhashchange special event, enabling basic bookmarkable #hash history and back/forward button support. It uses the native event where available and falls back to polling (with a hidden iframe for IE6/7) in older browsers.
Use cases
- support the browser back button in a hash-based single-page app
- make #hash URLs bookmarkable in old browsers
- bind callbacks to hash changes with jQuery
- add hashchange support to browsers lacking window.onhashchange
- maintain client-side state in the URL fragment
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy jQuery codebase that must support very old browsers like IE6-8
- you need only the basic hashchange event without extra hash-state utilities
When to avoid
- starting a new modern project - the History API and native hashchange are widely supported
- you need rich hash state management - use jQuery BBQ or a modern router instead
- the project is unmaintained since 2010 and tested only against jQuery 1.x
Facets
plugin · maturity abandoned
routing state-management middleware web-development frontend browser-extensions browser jquery-plugin hash-history back-button bookmarkable-urls legacy-browsers special-events javascript
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-hashchange · fetched 2026-08-28 · 989beafa508b
- homepage: http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-hashchange-plugin/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 589388da302d
- site_page: https://benalman.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3aafe40a123e
- site_page: https://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-hashchange/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5b9a7fe3943b
- site_page: https://benalman.com/about/license · fetched 2026-08-29 · 25a1aa103209
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/jquery-hashchange · fetched 2026-08-29 · 13ccabed27bc
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cowboy/jquery-hashchange | main | 32 |
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