Get the first part of a url path

Question

If I have a url like:

http://localhost:53830/Organisations/1216/View

I want to alert the first part of the url path in lowercase format e.g. 'organisations'

So far I have:

var first = $(location).attr('pathname');  first.indexOf(1);  first.replace('/', '');  first.toLowerCase();  alert(first); 

but it's not working as intended. Can anyone help? Thanks

Answer 1

This will never throw an error because pathname always starts with a /, so the minimum length of the resulting array will be 2 after splitting:

const firstPath = window.location.pathname.split('/')[1]; 

If we are at the domain root, the returned value will be an empty string "".

Answer 2

var first = $(location).attr('pathname');  first.indexOf(1);  first.toLowerCase();  first = first.split("/")[1];  alert(first);