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

In case anyone would like to see this broken out into a very robust function

    function getBaseURL() {
        var loc = window.location;
        var baseURL = loc.protocol + "//" + loc.hostname;
        if (typeof loc.port !== "undefined" && loc.port !== "") baseURL += ":" + loc.port;
        // strip leading /
        var pathname = loc.pathname;
        if (pathname.length > 0 && pathname.substr(0,1) === "/") pathname = pathname.substr(1, pathname.length - 1);
        var pathParts = pathname.split("/");
        if (pathParts.length > 0) {
            for (var i = 0; i < pathParts.length; i++) {
                if (pathParts[i] !== "") baseURL += "/" + pathParts[i];
            }
        }
        return baseURL;
    }