Request address in JavaScript

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Get current URL with JavaScript?

How do you get the address of the page you are on in JavaScript?

For example, if I had a script at somesite.com/javascript/home.html and I want to find out the request address (somesite.com/javascript/home.html), how do I get this information in JavaScript?

Life just isn't fair - the duplicate duped this original into a lonely corner, stole all the reputation and then said that this one was the duplicate. — icc97, Nov 13 '14 at 10:09

score 38 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 22 '14 at 23:27

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You need to use: document.location or window.location

You can read more here. Or there is a little more explanation over there.

For clarifying matter:

Originally Posted by Mozilla Developer Center

document.location was originally a read-only property, although Gecko browsers allow you to assign to it as well. For cross-browser safety, use window.location instead.

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score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 24 '12 at 15:57

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window.location.href;

or

location.href;

window is the global object, so location.href will be identical to window.location.href and NOT document.location.href (as long as there's no enclosing function or with statement which shadows the property)

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score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 11 '13 at 08:51

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What you are looking for is window.location.href.

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score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 29 '17 at 06:43

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I believe that either the window.location.href or the window.location.pathname objects will have this information.Someone could confirm or deny that though.

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answered Jun 22 '09 at 21:08

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Nope. window.location.href will return the full url including the query strings e.g http://domain.com/test.php?param=1&req=1 while window.location.pathname will return just the path e.g test.php :) – Woppi Oct 31 '12 at 02:10

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 05:13

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document.location.href

or

window.location.href

answered Apr 19 '12 at 05:13

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 22 '09 at 21:07

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document.URL

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