All I want is to get the website URL. Not the URL as taken from a link. On the page loading I need to be able to grab the full, current URL of the website and set it as a variable to do with as I please.
Use:
window.location.href
As noted in the comments, the line below works, but it is bugged for Firefox.
document.URL
See URL of type DOMString, readonly.
URL Info Access
JavaScript provides you with many methods to retrieve and change the current URL, which is displayed in the browser's address bar. All these methods use the Location object, which is a property of the Window object. You can read the current Location object by reading window.location:
var currentLocation = window.location;
Basic URL Structure
<protocol>//<hostname>:<port>/<pathname><search><hash>
protocol: Specifies the protocol name be used to access the resource on the Internet. (HTTP (without SSL) or HTTPS (with SSL))
hostname: Host name specifies the host that owns the resource. For example, www.stackoverflow.com. A server provides services using the name of the host.
port: A port number used to recognize a specific process to which an Internet or other network message is to be forwarded when it arrives at a server.
pathname: The path gives info about the specific resource within the host that the Web client wants to access. For example, /index.html.
search: A query string follows the path component, and provides a string of information that the resource can utilize for some purpose (for example, as parameters for a search or as data to be processed).
hash: The anchor portion of a URL, includes the hash sign (#).
With these Location object properties you can access all of these URL components and what they can set or return:
href - the entire URL
protocol - the protocol of the URL
host - the hostname and port of the URL
hostname - the hostname of the URL
port - the port number the server uses for the URL
pathname - the path name of the URL
search - the query portion of the URL
hash - the anchor portion of the URL
origin - the window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host
I hope you got your answer..
Use window.location for read and write access to the location object associated with the current frame. If you just want to get the address as a read-only string, you may use document.URL, which should contain the same value as window.location.href.
Gets the current page URL:
window.location.href
OK, getting the full URL of the current page is easy using pure JavaScript. For example, try this code on this page:
window.location.href;
// use it in the console of this page will return
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034621/get-current-url-in-web-browser"
The window.location.href property returns the URL of the current page.
document.getElementById("root").innerHTML = "The full URL of this page is:<br>" + window.location.href;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>JavaScript</h2>
<h3>The window.location.href</h3>
<p id="root"></p>
</body>
</html>
Just not bad to mention these as well:
if you need a relative path, simply use window.location.pathname;
if you'd like to get the host name, you can use window.location.hostname;
and if you need to get the protocol separately, use window.location.protocol
also, if your page has hash tag, you can get it like: window.location.hash.
So window.location.href handles all in once... basically:
window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname + window.location.hash === window.location.href;
//true
Also using window is not needed if already in window scope...
So, in that case, you can use:
location.protocol
location.hostname
location.pathname
location.hash
location.href
To get the path, you can use:
console.log('document.location', document.location.href);
console.log('location.pathname', window.location.pathname); // Returns path only
console.log('location.href', window.location.href); // Returns full URL
Open Developer Tools, type in the following in the console and press Enter.
window.location
Ex: Below is the screenshot of the result on the current page.
Grab what you need from here. :)
Use: window.location.href.
As noted above, document.URL doesn't update when updating window.location. See MDN.
Use window.location.href to get the complete URL.
Use window.location.pathname to get URL leaving the host.
You can get the current URL location with a hash tag by using:
JavaScript:
// Using href
var URL = window.location.href;
// Using path
var URL = window.location.pathname;
jQuery:
$(location).attr('href');
For complete URL with query strings:
document.location.toString()
For host URL:
window.location
// http://127.0.0.1:8000/projects/page/2?name=jake&age=34
let url = new URL(window.location.href);
/*
hash: ""
host: "127.0.0.1:8000"
hostname: "127.0.0.1"
href: "http://127.0.0.1:8000/projects/page/2?username=jake&age=34"
origin: "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
password: ""
pathname: "/projects/page/2"
port: "8000"
protocol: "http:"
search: "?name=jake&age=34"
username: ""
*/
url.searchParams.get('name')
// jake
url.searchParams.get('age')
// 34
url.searchParams.get('gender')
// null
To get the path, you can use:
http://www.example.com:8082/index.php#tab2?foo=789
Property Result
------------------------------------------
window.location.host www.example.com:8082
window.location.hostname www.example.com
window.location.port 8082
window.location.protocol http:
window.location.pathname index.php
window.location.href http://www.example.com:8082/index.php#tab2
window.location.hash #tab2
window.location.search ?foo=789
window.location.origin https://example.com
var currentPageUrlIs = "";
if (typeof this.href != "undefined") {
currentPageUrlIs = this.href.toString().toLowerCase();
}else{
currentPageUrlIs = document.location.toString().toLowerCase();
}
The above code can also help someone
Adding result for quick reference
window.location;
Location {href: "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034621/get-the-current-url-with-javascript",
ancestorOrigins: DOMStringList,
origin: "https://stackoverflow.com",
replace: ƒ, assign: ƒ, …}
document.location
Location {href: "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034621/get-the-current-url-with-javascript",
ancestorOrigins: DOMStringList,
origin: "https://stackoverflow.com",
replace: ƒ, assign: ƒ
, …}
window.location.pathname
"/questions/1034621/get-the-current-url-with-javascript"
window.location.href
"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034621/get-the-current-url-with-javascript"
location.hostname
"stackoverflow.com"
For those who want an actual URL object, potentially for a utility which takes URLs as an argument:
const url = new URL(window.location.href)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL
Nikhil Agrawal's answer is great, just adding a little example here you can do in the console to see the different components in action:
If you want the base URL without path or query parameter (for example to do AJAX requests against to work on both development/staging AND production servers), window.location.origin is best as it keeps the protocol as well as optional port (in Django development, you sometimes have a non-standard port which breaks it if you just use hostname etc.)
You have multiple ways to do this.
1:
location.href;
2:
document.URL;
3:
document.documentURI;
Use this:
var url = window.location.href;
console.log(url);
In jstl we can access the current URL path using pageContext.request.contextPath. If you want to do an Ajax call, use the following URL.
url = "${pageContext.request.contextPath}" + "/controller/path"
Example: For the page http://stackoverflow.com/posts/36577223 this will give http://stackoverflow.com/controller/path.
The way to get the current location object is window.location.
Compare this to document.location, which originally only returned the current URL as a string. Probably to avoid confusion, document.location was replaced with document.URL.
And, all modern browsers map document.location to window.location.
In reality, for cross-browser safety, you should use window.location rather than document.location.
location.origin+location.pathname+location.search+location.hash;
and
location.href
does the same.
You can get the full link of the current page through location.href
and to get the link of the current controller, use:
location.href.substring(0, location.href.lastIndexOf('/'));
Short
location+''
let url = location+'';
console.log(url);
Getting the current URL with JavaScript :
window.location.toString();
window.location.href
if you are referring to a specific link that has an id this code can help you.
$(".disapprove").click(function(){
var id = $(this).attr("id");
$.ajax({
url: "<?php echo base_url('index.php/sample/page/"+id+"')?>",
type: "post",
success:function()
{
alert("The Request has been Disapproved");
window.location.replace("http://localhost/sample/page/"+id+"");
}
});
});
I am using ajax here to submit an id and redirect the page using window.location.replace. just add an attribute id="" as stated.
let url = new URL(window.location.href);
console.log(url.href);
Use the above code to get the current URL of the website.
or try this - https://bbbootstrap.com/code/get-current-url-javascript-54628697
Firstly check for page is loaded completely in
browser,window.location.toString();
window.location.href
then call a function which takes url, URL variable and prints on console,
$(window).load(function(){
var url = window.location.href.toString();
var URL = document.URL;
var wayThreeUsingJQuery = $(location).attr('href');
console.log(url);
console.log(URL);
console.log(wayThreeUsingJQuery );
});
I am trying to redirect to a different page in IE9 (9.0.3).
When I try to get/set document.location, or document.location.href, or window.location/window.location.href, I'm unable to do so. It fails without giving any errors.
I've tried to check whether the document and windows objects are set, and they are, so I have no idea why the location object is "missing".
I tried getting the document.URL and that works fine, but it's read-only.
Anyone know what the problem is or how to achieve this in a cross-browser way?
I was also experiencing the same problem but found that adding
window.event.returnValue = false;
above line in the javascript before the redirection resolved the problem.
See this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/iewebdevelopment/thread/c864ae63-66f6-4656-bcae-86b0018d70c9
Apparently it's a caching bug, you can solve it by appending a timestamp to the destination URL (that is, using a "unique" URL every time).
Perhaps your IE9 has some security restrictions in place that prevent JavaScript from directing URL's. window.location.href = "" should work normally on IE9.
Cache may be the reason, try:
location.href='something.php?tmp=' + Date.parse(new Date())
Hope it helps
You should use an absolute URL:
var url = '/section/page/';
var host = window.location.hostname;
window.location = 'http://' + host + url;
Where url is the relative path to your page.
I'm just building a simple ajax site but running into a problem in safari and chrome. I'm just creating a simple redirect if the user goes to a page i.e.
"/blog"
they would be redirected to
"/#/blog"
code :
url = window.location.pathname
if(url != "/") {
window.location.pathname = "/#" + url
}
This is working great in FireFox but unfortunatly webkit browsers are turning the "#" into a "%23" and giving a 404, for example:
"/%23/blog"
How can I prevent this?
Thanks,
Alex
pathname refers to everything after the host, and before the query string and hash. Consider this instead:
window.location.hash = window.location.pathname;
window.location.pathname = "/";
I'm not exactly sure which browser(s) are implementing the JavaScript spec correctly, but WebKit's behavior seems correct to me.
You are setting pathname, which, by definition, does not include the hash. Webkit is trying to fix that for you (Firefox just made a better guess of what you wanted). Try this:
window.location = '/#/blog';