hx-boost="true" and hx-push-url="false" not working for anchor URL in v2.0.10

[bluesurfer]

Consider this example:

<div hx-boost="true" hx-push-url="false">
  <a href="/page1">Go To Page 1</a>
  <a href="/page2">Go To Page 2</a>
</div>

HTMX is ignoring the hx-push-url="false" and pushes the URL. I am not sure if this is an intended behavior but I do remember it used to works in previous version of HTMX.

[MichaelWest22]

If it is htmx 4 you are using then I think the issue you have is the new default behavior where attributes are no longer inherited unless you turn on the implicit inheritance config item. By default in 4 we no longer automatically apply any attributes down to children elements and this is very often used with hx-boost=true on a parent div. Instead you need to now be explicit in your intent and use hx-boost:inherited="true" to make it apply to all child links and forms. The same is true for hx-push-url:inherited="false" if you want this to apply to all the children. so your example would become:

<div hx-boost:inherited="true" hx-push-url:inherited="false">
  <a href="/page1">Go To Page 1</a>
  <a href="/page2">Go To Page 2</a>
</div>

we also have a new advanced hx-boost format (https://four.htmx.org/reference/attributes/hx-boost) to make applying more complex boost configurations and this allows you to replace the word true with a HCON (https://four.htmx.org/docs#hcon) formatted string of properties to apply only to boosted elements so with this option you would get:

<div hx-boost:inherited="push:false">
  <a href="/page1">Go To Page 1</a>
  <a href="/page2">Go To Page 2</a>
</div>

[bluesurfer]

@MichaelWest22 sorry I should have mention that. I am not using v4. Using htmx 2.0.10

[vikrtd]

I can confirm, I've the same issue after upgrading from 2.0.8 to 2.0.10

[vikrtd]

It's probably due to changes from #3741

[bluesurfer]

@vikrtd I do confirm that this bug is not present in v2.0.8

[MichaelWest22]

Yeah confirmed this is a bug in 2.0.9 where we improved the push replace handling and control but missed this case. I have a fix i will put up a PR for