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I was able to put together a simplified complete History.js example using three links to load fragments of content from a full page without updating the page and while updating the browser history.

Here are the relevent code snippets - a complete working example is here http://jsfiddle.net/PT7qx/show

<a href="/page-header">Page Header</a> <a href="/login-form">Login Form</a> <a href="/nothing">Nothing</a> <script> var History = window.History; if (!History.enabled) { return false; } History.Adapter.bind(window, 'statechange', function() { var State = History.getState(); History.log(State.data, State.title, State.url); if (State.title == 'Page Header') { $('#content').load('/user/login/ .pageHeader > *'); } if (State.title == 'Login Form') { $('#content').load('/user/login/ #common-form > *'); } if (State.title == 'Nothing') { $('#content').empty() } }); $('body').on('click', 'a', function(e) { var urlPath = $(this).attr('href'); var Title = $(this).text(); History.pushState(null, Title, urlPath); // prevents default click action of <a ...> return false; }); <\script>

I would like to know if this is the correct usage. The previous version had an ability to bind to an event using the # urls. I have not seen any examples for binding events to urls with this latest version so I used the .on() click event to call History and sorted out what link was clicked in there.

I am not sure if this is the best way to accomplish this for this example.

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After working on this some more, I have come up with a simple, but complete example for how to use the latest History.js. Here is working jsfiddle example that does Ajax loads of HTML fragments hosted on Github

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Simple History.js Ajax example by dansalmo</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://balupton.github.com/history.js/scripts/bundled/html4+html5/jquery.history.js"></script> <style type='text/css'> .hidden { display: none; visibility: hidden; } </style> </head> <body> <a href="/home">Home</a> <a href="/about">About</a> <a href="/contact">Contact</a> <a href="/other">Other</a> <p>The whole page will not re-load when the content below is updated, yet the URL is clean and the back button works!<p><br /> <div id="content"> <div id="home">Home Page content</div> </div> <br /> <p>The content div will be updated with a selected div fragment from an HTML file hosted on github, however the broswer will see each content update request as a part of the page history so that the back button can be used.</p> <br /> <p>Adding more menu items is as simple as adding the new links and their corresponding html fragments.<p> <div id="hidden_content" class="hidden"></div> </body> <script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[ $(function(){ var History = window.History; if (History.enabled) { State = History.getState(); // set initial state to first page that was loaded History.pushState({urlPath: window.location.pathname}, $("title").text(), State.urlPath); } else { return false; } var loadAjaxContent = function(target, urlBase, selector) { $(target).load(urlBase + ' ' + selector); }; var updateContent = function(State) { var selector = '#' + State.data.urlPath.substring(1); if ($(selector).length) { //content is already in #hidden_content $('#content').children().appendTo('#hidden_content'); $(selector).appendTo('#content'); } else { $('#content').children().clone().appendTo('#hidden_content'); loadAjaxContent('#content', State.url, selector); } }; // Content update and back/forward button handler History.Adapter.bind(window, 'statechange', function() { updateContent(History.getState()); }); // navigation link handler $('body').on('click', 'a', function(e) { var urlPath = $(this).attr('href'); var title = $(this).text(); History.pushState({urlPath: urlPath}, title, urlPath); return false; // prevents default click action of <a ...> }); });//]]> </script> </html>
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I'm a bit late to the party, but it's worth noting that History.pushState({urlPath: window.location.pathname()}, $("title").text(), State.urlPath); will throw an error, as window.location.pathname() isn't a function. Just remove the parentheses and it works like a charm.
Thanks for catching that. Not sure how I missed it since I had thought I was pasting it from a working version.
@dansalmo, If I implement an example like the one you showed above (stackoverflow.com/a/13314438/1867808) then where do I put the additional content relative to the index.html file? Do I put it in a response.html that is in the same folder as index.html?
Yes. At least using the server framework that I am using. I use Google App Engine with Python 2.7.
am i have to send entire page on target link or just some part of page of target link?
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