How to get the base path in jQuery?

Question

window.locationworks fine, but returns me the whole, absolute path, like http://domain.xyz/punch/lines. But I only need http://domain.xyz/. How can I extract only that first part? And how can I make that dynamic, I mean to be always the same even when the subdirectory path gets longer?

Answer 1

You can get the protocol and the host separately, and then join them to get what you need

window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/" 

As a sidenote, window.location.pathname would contain the path.

Answer 2

You can use this statement

var baseUrl = document.location.origin;