title: Remove hashtags from a URL but still jump to the element
body: <p>Here's my predicament. I have three links from one page that go to another one and take the visitor to its respective DIV id:</p>
  
  <pre><code>www.mysite.com/#about
  www.mysite.com/#gallery
  www.mysite.com/#help
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's working fine, but I really need to remove the trailing hashtags from the URL or it messes with a jquery gallery slider. Is this possible? I've seen others asking similar questions but they don't seem to be navigating to a new page.</p>
  
  <p>What I am looking for is a way for a visitor to click on the link (e.g., <code>www.mysite.com/#about</code>) and be taken to that page (and respective element) but have the browser trim off the <code>#about</code> and just report <code>www.mysite.com</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Jquery, PHP, javascript, I don't care what really.</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking another alternative would be to take the user to www.mysite.com and then apply the hashtag afterwards. Is this at all possible? Just so they are taken to the element but the url in the browser doesn't reflect the hashtag.</p>
  
  <p>PS: I'm no coder so if there is a bit of code that can do this, can you guys be really clear on how to implement?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks.</p>