How to modify a URL without reloading the page in JavaScript

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to modify the URL without reloading the webpage using JavaScript.

History API provides us some useful methods which are used to manipulate the browser history stack.

To modify a url without reloading the page, we can use the replaceState() method in JavaScript.

replaceState() method

The replaceState() method accepts three arguments which are data,title, url by using these arguments it updates the url without reloading the page.

Example:

//history.replaceState(data,title,url);

history.replaceState({page:2},'JavaScript','/javascript/');

data: It is an object where we can store some data related to that url.

title: It contains data related to the title of the webpage.

url : The url you need to add.

pushState() method

Similarly, we can use the pushState() method which also works same like replaceMethod() but the pushState() method creates the new entry into the history stack instead of replacing the old entry.

Example:

history.pushState({page:2},'JavaScript','/javascript/');