Ext Replace History

Published on 4/25/2012

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You can use Ext.History.add() to change the URL bar and add an item to the browser’s history. For example, you could go from example.com#contacts to example.com#email

This doesn’t reload the page, but you can listen for the change and load different forms in Ext, for example

Today, however, I needed to change the URL without adding an item to History, yet still fire the Ext.History.change event. To do that call:

window.location.replace('#somevalue');

I added a function to Ext.History:

Ext.History.replace = function(value){

    location.replace('#' + value);

};

You might want to use this to go from contacts/create to contacts/99 (say it autosaved), without the using having to hit back twice to get back to where they came from.

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