[WICKET-5270] Do not set the location.hash when clicking on a link

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 6.10.0, 7.0.0-M1
• Component/s: wicket
• Assignee: Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov
• Reporter: Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov
• Created: 10/Jul/13 09:50
• Updated: 12/Jul/13 13:21
• Resolved: 12/Jul/13 13:20

Description

Clicking an AjaxLink or SubmitLink sets the location.hash to an empty value (..../someUrl?some=param#).
This interferes with JavaScript libraries which need to use 'hashchange' event.

Additionally in two of our apps we experience a strange page reloads after clicking on AjaxLink.
The issue is not easy to reproduce but it seems to be caused by the used href="#" somehow.
Applying a custom behavior that overrides href="#" with href="javascript:;" fixes the problem.

The problem occurred on Google Chrome and IE9 so far.