I'm looking for a neat way of getting the URL of the current document in Javascript.
- The URL should be clean of parameters (?parameter1=bla¶meter2=bla)
- The URL should be clean of hash tags (#jumppoint)
- http/https should be removed/consolidated into http
I know i can get the current URL with location.href and then use some regular expressions to clean it up but maybe there is a nicer/cleaner solution for getting rid of the junk?
There are many other parameters than the href
in window.location
. See full reference here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location
What you are looking for as a starter might be the window.location.hostname
:
"the host name (without the port number or square
brackets)."
From the example URL http://[www.example.com]:80/search?q=devmo#test
the hostname will be www.example.com
.
If you also want to include the path and force a http:// protocol, try:
'http://' + window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname;
As a side note, a nifty trick to get the same parameters from another URL than the window.location is to create an empty anchor:
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = 'http://www.example.com:80/search?q=devmo#test';
console.log('http://' + a.hostname + a.pathname);
None of the given answers address the fact that the protocol can be http or https as in the OPs title. To accommodate this I suggest:
document.location.protocol +"//"+ document.location.hostname + document.location.pathname
The Location object got what you need
window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname
You have document.location
object, so:
var oLoc = document.location,
sUrl = oLoc.protocol + oLoc.hostname;
// or "http://" + oLoc.hostname
You can use these replacement functions to remove the hash and search arguments and normalize https to http:
url = url.replace(/#[^#]*$/, "").replace(/\?[^\?]*$/, "").replace(/^https:/, "http:");
Or, if all you really want is the domain and path, you can just use this:
window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname
This page indicates that you could probably use window.location.host
to get the part you're actually interested in. I haven't tested it, though.
Try:
window.location.hostname;