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setting top.location.hash with %20 in firefox

In firefox, using this javascript:

top.location.hash = "#here%20are%20spaces";

changes the browser url to:

http://mysite.com/#here are spaces

I expected firefox to show the encoded spaces as %20 in the browser url.

  1. What's going on here? Why is firefox not setting the url to the string as I passed it?
  2. How can I force firefox to update the url with the encoded characters?

and...

If I add set the url to 

top.location.hash = "#here%20are%20spaces%";

It works(!?), albeit with an extra unwanted % appended to the end. I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature. Ideas or references on how to proceed?

Solution

  • %20 are replaced with an empty space (in firefox 3) just for readability purpose. You shouldn't worry about it.