jquery, domain, get URL

Question

How can I get the domain name with jquery ??

Answer 1

EDIT:

If you don't need to support IE10, you can simply use: document.location.origin

Original answer, if you need legacy support

You can get all this and more by inspecting the location object:

location = {
  host: "stackoverflow.com",
  hostname: "stackoverflow.com",
  href: "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2300771/jquery-domain-get-url",
  pathname: "/questions/2300771/jquery-domain-get-url",
  port: "",
  protocol: "http:"
}

so:

location.host 

would be the domain, in this case stackoverflow.com. For the complete first part of the url, you can use:

location.protocol + "//" + location.host

which in this case would be http://stackoverflow.com

No jQuery required.