how to get the host url using javascript from the current page

Question

Given that I\'m on the following page:

http://www.webmail.com/pages/home.aspx

How can I retrieve the host name (\"http://www.webmail.

Answer 1

To get the hostname: location.hostname

But your example is looking for the scheme as well, so location.origin appears to do what you want in Chrome, but gets not mention in the Mozdev docs. You can construct it with

location.protocol + '//' + location.hostname

If you want the port number as well (for when it isn't 80) then:

location.protocol + '//' + location.host

Answer 2

let path = window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.hostname + ':' + window.location.port;

Answer 3

You can get the protocol, host, and port using this:

window.location.origin

Browser compatibility

Desktop

| Chrome                           | Edge  | Firefox (Gecko) | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari (WebKit)                            |
|----------------------------------|-------|-----------------|-------------------|-------|--------------------------------------------|
| (Yes)                            | (Yes) | (Yes)           | (Yes)             | (Yes) | (Yes)                                      |
| 30.0.1599.101 (possibly earlier) | ?     | 21.0 (21.0)     | 11                | ?     | 7 (possibly earlier, see webkit bug 46558) |

Mobile

| Android                          | Edge  | Firefox Mobile (Gecko) | IE Phone | Opera Mobile | Safari Mobile                              |
|----------------------------------|-------|------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------------------|
| (Yes)                            | (Yes) | (Yes)                  | (Yes)    | (Yes)        | (Yes)                                      |
| 30.0.1599.101 (possibly earlier) | ?     | 21.0 (21.0)            | ?        | ?            | 7 (possibly earlier, see webkit bug 46558) |

All browser compatibility is from Mozilla Developer Network

Answer 4

// will return the host name and port
var host = window.location.host; 

or possibly

var host = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host;

or if you like concatenation

var protocol = location.protocol;
var slashes = protocol.concat("//");
var host = slashes.concat(window.location.host);

// or as you probably should do
var host = location.protocol.concat("//").concat(window.location.host);

// the above is the same as origin, e.g. "https://stackoverflow.com"
var host = window.location.origin;

If you have or expect custom ports use window.location.host instead of window.location.hostname

Answer 5

This should work:

window.location.hostname

Answer 6

I like this one depending of purpose

window.location.href.split("/")[2] == "localhost:17000" //always domain + port

You can apply it on any url-string

var url = "http://localhost:17000/sub1/sub2/mypage.html?q=12";
url.split("/")[2] == "localhost:17000"
url.split("/")[url.split("/").length-1] == "mypage.html?q=12"

Removing protocol, domain & path from url-string (relative path)

var arr = url.split("/");
if (arr.length>3)
   "/" + arr.splice(3, arr.length).join("/") == "/sub1/sub2/mypage.html?q=12"