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

Here's something quick that also works with file:// URLs.

I came up with this one-liner:

[((1!=location.href.split(location.href.split("/").pop())[0].length?location.href.split(location.href.split("/").pop())[0]:(location.protocol,location.protocol+"//" + location.host+"/"))).replace(location.protocol+"//"+location.protocol+"//"+location.protocol+"://")]