how to get the base url in javascript

Question

I am building a website with CodeIgniter, I have various resources that I load with the base_url helper function like this

Answer 1

Base URL in JavaScript

You can access the current url quite easily in JavaScript with window.location

You have access to the segments of that URL via this locations object. For example:

// This article:
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21246818/how-to-get-the-base-url-in-javascript

var base_url = window.location.origin;
// "http://stackoverflow.com"

var host = window.location.host;
// stackoverflow.com

var pathArray = window.location.pathname.split( '/' );
// ["", "questions", "21246818", "how-to-get-the-base-url-in-javascript"]

In Chrome Dev Tools, you can simply enter window.location in your console and it will return all of the available properties.

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