Javascript Get Website URL

Question

How do I get Javascript to tell me the website url.

For example if I have a page www.example.com/page.html

I want Javascript to tell me the site url is www.example.com and not www.example.com/page.html (which document.location tells me)

Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Answer 1

There are several ways you can do this, but one way might be best for certain situations (e.g. within an iFrame).

Protocol + Domain + Page

document.URL > "http://example.com/page1.html"  document.location.href > "http://example.com/page1.html" 

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Protocol + Domain

document.location.origin > "http://example.com" 

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Domain

document.location.host > "example.com" 

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Page

document.location.pathname > "/page1.html" 

Answer 2

Use

window.location.hostname 

You can test it by just typing it in the chrome dev tools console

Reference

MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location