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How to get the current URL in JavaScript

Find out the ways JavaScript offers you to get the current URL that's opened in the browser

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To get the current URL of the page you opened in the browser using JavaScript you can rely on the location property exposed by the browser on the window object:

window.location

Since window is the global object in the browser, the property can be referenced as

location

This is a Location object which has many properties on its own:

window.location

The current page URL is exposed in

location.href

Other properties of location provide useful information:

CodeDescription
location.hostnamethe host name
location.originthe origin
location.hashthe hash, the part that follow the hash # symbol
location.pathnamethe path
location.portthe port
location.protocolthe protocol
location.searchthe query string
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