location.hash = "myhash" coming as #/myhash in url

[softreigns]

I am having a html page with a angular with angular controller in seperate file. I am bootstrapping in this html page and i have other plain javascript also where I am trying to set the location.hash with a button click. For me hash value in the page url is coming as #/myhash. If i remove angular bootstraping it come correct as #myash. Is there any way to prevent it ? Am I missing something ? Why is bootstrapping making it wrong ?

Thanks for the help

[pkozlowski-opensource]

This is duplicate of #4608

What is going on here is that the built-in $location service observes URLs and tries to use them for routing. This is exactly what we want in SPAs but usually not what we want in an application which already manages URLs and want to use AngularJS only for a small portion of the page.

There are some work-arounds in #4608 but no "best & official" solution. I hope to look into it in the 1.5 timeframe.

Closing as a duplicate.

[softreigns]

Thanks for your reply.