jQuery/JS: Get current URL parent directory

Question

From:

http://www.site.com/example/index.html

How can I get just:

http://www.site.com/example/

And storing it into a variable using Javascript and how using jQuery also. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The following seems to work

new URL(".", "http://example.com/folder/subfolder/file.js")

Answer 2

http://jsfiddle.net/mXpBx/

var s1 = "http://www.site.com/example/index.html";
var s2 = s1.replace(s1.split("/").pop(),"");