Jquery to get the name of the current html file

Question

If you are on http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/opinion/brown-pakistan-malala/index.html can you get Jquery to grab the index.html?

or if you a

Answer 1

No need for jQuery. This will give you the last segment of the URL path (the bit after the last slash):

var href = document.location.href;
var lastPathSegment = href.substr(href.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);