How to get only the Controller name and action name from URL with jQuery

Question

I am using .net MVC in my website and I need to get the URL in javascript, but only the controller and action name, for instance if i have:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9513736/current-url-without-parameters-hash-https

I need:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9513736/

I have found some solutions such as:

urlBase = location.href.substring(0, location.href.lastIndexOf("/")+1)

->http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9513736/

However if my URL does not have any parameters I the action name is cut off like so:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Answer 1

You can use window.location.pathname for this.

For the url in this question it returns

"/questions/28946447/how-to-get-only-the-controller-name-and-action-name-from-url-with-jquery"

To read it properly you can use: window.location.pathname.split("/")
Read the value with:

var url = window.location.pathname.split("/");
var questions = url[1];