Request address in JavaScript [duplicate]

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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?

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aug · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-22 23:27:40Z

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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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Robert Harvey · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-24 15:57:38Z

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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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fedorqui · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-11 08:51:14Z

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

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Hiranya Sarma · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-29 06:43:35Z

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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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Woppi Over a year ago

Nope. window.location.href will return the full url including the query strings e.g domain.com/test.php?param=1&req=1 while window.location.pathname will return just the path e.g test.php :)

Daniel Moura · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-22 21:07:22Z

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document.URL

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Talha · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-19 05:13:34Z

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document.location.href

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window.location.href

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