Get the current URL with JavaScript?

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dougoftheabaci picture dougoftheabaci · Jun 23, 2009 · Viewed 3M times · Source

All I want is to get the website URL. Not the URL as taken from a link. On the page loading I need to be able to grab the full, current URL of the website and set it as a variable to do with as I please.

Answer

VolkerK picture VolkerK · Jun 23, 2009

Use:

window.location.href

As noted in the comments, the line below works, but it is bugged for Firefox.

document.URL

See URL of type DOMString, readonly.

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