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.
27 Answers
Use:
window.location.href
As noted in the comments, the line below works, but it is bugged for Firefox.
document.URL
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.
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.hrefproperty 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
hashtag, you can get it like:window.location.hash.
- also, if your page has
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
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');
// 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
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)
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;
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.
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
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 );
});
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