How to get base url with jquery or javascript?

Question

In joomla php there I can use $this->baseurl to get the base path, but I wanted to get the base path in jquery.

The base path may be any of the follo

Answer 1

Had the same issue a while ago, my problem was, I simply needed the base url. There are a lot of detailed options here but to get around this, simply use the window.location object. Actually type this in the browser console and hit enter to select your options there. Well for my case it was simply:

window.location.origin