Creating a new Location object in javascript

Question

Is it possible to create a new Location object in javascript? I have a url as a string and I would like to leverage what javascript already provides to gain access to the different parts of it.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about (I know this doesn't work):

var url = new window.location("http://www.example.com/some/path?name=value#anchor"); var protocol = url.protocol; var hash = url.hash; // etc etc 

Is anything like this possible or would I essentially have to create this object myself?

Answer 1

Well, you could use an anchor element to extract the url parts, for example:

var url = document.createElement('a'); url.href = "http://www.example.com/some/path?name=value#anchor"; var protocol = url.protocol; var hash = url.hash;  alert('protocol: ' + protocol); alert('hash: ' + hash); ​ 

It works on all modern browsers and even on IE 5.5+.

Check an example here.