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Question

I'm converting some existing code to use React Router.

The code currently uses <a href="#" ...>, which I am changing to <Link to=??>.

My question is: What should I use for the "to" parameter? If I use to="#", the application routes to "/", which is not what I want.

It works if I use the current route name, but the whole idea of href="#" is that the code doesn't have to know how it is accessed.

I am using React Router 2 with history=browserHistory.

Accepted Answer

For me this was the solution:

I used the npm module react-router-hash-link. It is quite easy to use. Docs here

import { HashLink as Link } from 'react-router-hash-link'; <Link smooth to="/#services">Services</Link>

And wrap your <App> component in <HashRouter> from npm module react-router-dom

Answer 2

Here are a few solutions that worked for me:

<Link to={{}}>
- to can take an object; sending an empty object stays on the current page
<Link to={{ search: '' }}>
- In my specific case, I wanted to stay on the same page but wipe the search params, which is what this does
<Link to={window.location.pathname}>
- Similar to the suggestion in Damien Leroux's answer, without the hash
<Link to="#">
- This seemed to work fine for me, maybe because I'm using react-router v6

What didn't work for me:

<Link to={this.props.route.path}
- I'm using functional components, so I don't have any this.props. Maybe there's another way in the react-router API to get the path.
<Link to=".">
- This linked to / for me

Answer 3

I think you could try something more or less like that:

<Link to={window.location.pathname} hash="/#">HASH</Link>

See there :

Answer 4

This works because "this.props.route.path" is the route to the current page:

<Link to={this.props.route.path} ...

Note that if you have nested React components, you have to pass "this.path" down from the outer components, as described at

Answer 5

<Link to='#' />

this works but it will still stack your history

Answer 6

It works for me:

<Link className="dropdown-item" to="javascript:void()">
   Link Title
</Link>

Answer 7

If you need to go to a specified section of your "/" path (even from another path), you can make it work with the anchor tag as well, like this:

<a href="./#your-section-id">Go to Section</a>

Hope this helps.

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