Looking for a way to parse key pairs out of the hash/fragment of a URL into an object/associative array with JavaScript/JQuery
Here it is, modified from this query string parser:
function getHashParams() {
var hashParams = {};
var e,
a = /\+/g, // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space
r = /([^&;=]+)=?([^&;]*)/g,
d = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(a, " ")); },
q = window.location.hash.substring(1);
while (e = r.exec(q))
hashParams[d(e[1])] = d(e[2]);
return hashParams;
}
No JQuery/plug-in required
Update:
I'm now recommending the jQuery BBQ plugin as per Hovis's answer. It covers all hash parsing issues.
Update (2019)
Apparently there is now a URLSearchParams function - see answer from @Berkant