Get the full URI from the href property of a link

Question

I would like to have a confirmation on some point.

My goal is to always get the same string (which is the URI in my case) while reading the href property from a link

Answer 1

You could recompose the full url using a bit of javascript :

function parseLink(link) {
    var baseUrl = location.href.substring(0,location.href.lastIndexOf('/'));
    if (link.indexOf('/') != -1) {
        link = link.substring(link.lastIndexOf('/')); 
    } else {
        link = "/"+ link;
    }
    var fullUrl = baseUrl + link;
    return fullUrl
}