Convert relative path to absolute using JavaScript

Question

There\'s a function, which gives me urls like:

./some.css
./extra/some.css
../../lib/slider/slider.css

It\'s always a relative path.

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Answer 1

I had to add a fix to the accepted solution because we can have slashes after # in our angularjs navigation.

function getAbsoluteUrl(base, relative) {
  // remove everything after #
  var hashPosition = base.indexOf('#');
  if (hashPosition > 0){
    base = base.slice(0, hashPosition);
  }

  // the rest of the function is taken from http://stackoverflow.com/a/14780463
  // http://stackoverflow.com/a/25833886 - this doesn't work in cordova
  // http://stackoverflow.com/a/14781678 - this doesn't work in cordova
  var stack = base.split("/"),
      parts = relative.split("/");
  stack.pop(); // remove current file name (or empty string)
               // (omit if "base" is the current folder without trailing slash)
  for (var i=0; i