javascript window location href without hash?

Question

I have:

var uri = window.location.href; 

That provides http://example.com/something#hash

What's the best and easiest way to get the entire path without the #hash?

uri    = http://example.com/something#hash nohash = http://example.com/something 

I tried using location.origin+location.pathname which doesn't work in every browser. I tried using location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname which looks like kind of a crappy solution to me.

What is the best and easiest way to do so? maybe I query for location.hash and try to substr() this from the uri?

Answer 1

location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname is the correct syntax if you do not care about port number or querystring

If you do care:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location

location.protocol+'//'+   location.host+   location.pathname+  (location.search?location.search:"") 

or

location.protocol+'//'+   location.hostname+  (location.port?":"+location.port:"")+   location.pathname+  (location.search?location.search:"") 

You can also just do a location.href.replace(location.hash,"")
It will remove EVERYTHING from the FIRST # and on regardless of other hash characters in the string

Alternatively create a URL object:

const url = new URL("https://www.somepage.com/page.hmtl#anchor") //(location.href); console.log(url) url.hash=""; console.log(url)

Answer 2

var uri = window.location.href.split("#")[0];  // Returns http://example.com/something  var hash = window.location.hash;  // Returns #hash