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:

The current page URL is exposed in

location.href

Other properties of location provide useful information:

Code	Description
location.hostname	the host name
location.origin	the origin
location.hash	the hash, the part that follow the hash # symbol
location.pathname	the path
location.port	the port
location.protocol	the protocol
location.search	the query string