HTML website url contains /#[object Object] when navigating - html

Question

I have a website and it contains the following code:
<li class="scroll-to-section">Services</li>
and the appropriate section:
<section class="section" id="services">
...
</section>
When I press the li element, the page scrolls to the services section as expected however, the url is appended with /#[object Object] instead of /services.
Here's an image:
Any idea about what the issue may be?
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add the javascript: The issue was the new_target variable. I had to change it to new_target as it was also target before and that fixed the issue!
$(document).ready(function() {
$(document).on("scroll", onScroll);
//smoothscroll
$('a[href^="#"]').on("click", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(document).off("scroll");
$("a").each(function() {
$(this).removeClass("active");
});
$(this).addClass("active");
var target = this.hash,
menu = target;
var new_target = $(this.hash);
$("html, body")
.stop()
.animate(
{
scrollTop: new_target.offset().top - 79
},
500,
"swing",
function() {
window.location.hash = target;
$(document).on("scroll", onScroll);
}
);
});
});

Answer 1

The question doesn't allows us to examine the problem in big detail but here is -at a glance- what is going on:
You are trying to assign an object to a place where only strings are valid.
Take a look at the following example:
function changeText() {
document.getElementById("input").value = "hello"
}
function changeTextWrong() {
document.getElementById("input").value = {link: "hello"}
}
<input id="input" value="sample text"/>
<button onclick="changeText()">change text (OK)</button>
<button onclick="changeTextWrong()">change text (WRONG)</button>
When the input text (equivalent to the url bar) receives the text "hello" it works because "hello" is a text. However when the input text receives an object, this object is then converted into a string. Any object converted into a string is equivalent to "[object Object]".
Solution? Instead of doing window.location.hash = object you very likely need to do something like window.location.hash = object.hash, or window.location.hash = object.WhAtEvEr depending on the object's actual content.

Answer 2

i think you tried to simplify the question without presenting us the complete or relevant code.
From your example, if you only do that it should work but i have a feeling that your code is doing more than that.
#adelriosantiago was right in pointing out that you might return an object instead of the expected string.