How to get request uri from location.href in javascript?

Question

What I get from location.href is like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask 

But I only want to get questions/ask (no / at the first character)

How to achieve this?

Answer 1

location.pathname.substr(1) would that be.

Answer 2

The location object has a pathname property.

This will give you /questions/ask and to remove the first character, use substring(1):

var path = location.pathname.substring(1);