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 new to javascript, and stuck on this problem. I am trying to have the url query string change based on which checkbox checked. But I seem to have some issue with window.location, Some of the JavaScript is below
var urltest= window.location.pathname;
var urltest2 = window.location.host;
var currentURL = urltest2 + urltest;
url = currentURL + "?" + arr_opts.join('&');
document.getElementById('myurl').innerHTML = url;
//window.location.href = url;
window.location = url;
The window.location does not work here, but when I change var currentURL to
var currentURLL = window.location.href;
it is work, but not with
var urltest= window.location.pathname;
var urltest2 = window.location.host;
var currentURL = urltest2 + urltest;
I need window.location to point page to the currentURL above.
Any help would be appreciated.
You're not providing a protocol, so the location.href change is being treated as "go to this relative path from the current location", i.e. on this page
window.location = window.location.host + window.location.pathname;
// takes us to
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35254564/javascript-window-location-not-working/stackoverflow.com/questions/35254564/javascript-window-location-not-working/35254601
Do one of the following
Provide a protocol so it knows it is an absolute URI,
window.location = window.location.prototcol + '//' + window.location.host + window.location.pathname + '?foo=bar';
Tell it to re-use the current protocol but work as an absolute URI
window.location = '//' + window.location.host + window.location.pathname + '?foo=bar';
Provide an origin (instead of host)
window.location = window.location.origin + window.location.pathname + '?foo=bar';
Tell it to re-use the same origin but work as an absolute path
window.location = window.location.pathname + '?foo=bar';
Just update the query
window.location = '?foo=bar';
Always choose the most simple option to make your life easier if you ever need to debug, i.e. if you can assume you will always want the same protocol, host and path, just update the query.
Useful knowledge
Starting a URL with..
// means same protocol
/ means same origin
? means same path
# means same query (will not re-load)
The pathname is going to be something like /questions/35254564/javascript-window-location-not-working, and the host is something like stackoverflow.com. If you put those together with code like yours, you get
stackoverflow.com/questions/35254564/javascript-window-location-not-working
That's clearly not correct; the host looks like part of the pathname. You can use protocol and port if you really feel the need to reconstruct the URL from its constituent parts, but using the href seems simpler if all you want to do is add a query string.
I am using
history.pushState('id','myTitle','myURL');
to manipulate the displayed URL and the history stack.
At some point I am pushing get parameters like so:
history.pushState('id','myTitle','?mySubLinkedStuff=hotSubLinkedStuff');
Now when I do
history.pushState('id','myTitle','#justSomeHashtag');
it produces http://example.com?mySubLinkedStuff=hotSubLinkedStuff#justSomeHashtag
I can also overwrite the value of mySubLinkedStuff but not seem to be able to get rif of it alltogether.
Desired result:
http://example.com#justSomeHashtag or http://example.com/#justSomeHashtag
and obviously I don't want to make the whole roundtrip over the server and I also want to avoid using absolute path or URL to keep the project portable.
As NimrodArgov rightly remarked: overwriting existing get-parameter strings works if you
push the full URL.
So for ensuring portability of the app (keep it usable on various domains) I did this:
history.statePush(document.location.origin + window.location.pathname + '#myHashValue');
Works perfectly well and fast.
To push current address without GET parameters :
history.pushState("id", "myTitle",
location.protocol + "//" + location.host +
location.pathname + location.hash
);
Other than that ;
To push a hash change I could do :
history.pushState("id", "myTitle",
location.protocol + "//" + location.host +
location.pathname + location.search + "#myHashHere"
);
To push a query change I could do :
history.pushState("id", "myTitle",
location.protocol + "//" + location.host +
location.pathname + "?my=query&over=here" + location.hash
);
※ Sorry I don’t have enough karma to just comment on Max’s answer… :/
I'm making an ebay template for myself, and I want to use a name anchor to jump to different section on the page template. But Ebay adds something to the URL therefore breaking the name anchor.
Since this seems to be Firefox related only, someone suggested that I need to strip "&bv=mozilla" from the URL then it would work. If there are any javascript experts out here that can help me out, I would highly appreciate it.
var documentUrl = location.href;
var newUrl = documentUrl.replace("&bv=mozilla","");
Try this:
var url = location.protocol + '//' + location.host + location.pathname;
or this:
var url = location.protocol + '//' + location.host + ':' + location.port + location.pathname;
if it is on the same page.
Otherwise, you could try this:
var url = 'insert URL here';
var new_url = url.substring(0, url.indexOf('?'));
See substring, indexOf and window.location.