Get the last item in an array

javascript arrays
balexander picture balexander · Jul 9, 2010 · Viewed 1.8M times · Source

Here is my JavaScript code so far:

var linkElement = document.getElementById("BackButton");
var loc_array = document.location.href.split('/');
var newT = document.createTextNode(unescape(capWords(loc_array[loc_array.length-2]))); 
linkElement.appendChild(newT);

Currently it takes the second to last item in the array from the URL. However, I want to do a check for the last item in the array to be "index.html" and if so, grab the third to last item instead.

Answer

Aaron Harun picture Aaron Harun · Jul 9, 2010 
if (loc_array[loc_array.length - 1] === 'index.html') {
   // do something
} else {
   // something else
}

In the event that your server serves the same file for "index.html" and "inDEX.htML" you can also use: .toLowerCase().

Though, you might want to consider doing this server-side if possible: it will be cleaner and work for people without JS.

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