How to get Current URL in Javascript?

When develop a wordpress plugin or work in wordpress theme, I usually meet the problem with getting URL in javascript code. The problem come is I want to get current URL of current page because not all situation we can pass the current URL from PHP code. That ‘s why I decide to share this tips to you to save our time.

It ‘s quite easy, just following this code

var currentPageUrl = "";
if (typeof this.href === "undefined") {
currentPageUrl = document.location.toString().toLowerCase();
}
else {
currentPageUrl = this.href.toString().toLowerCase();
}

You may want to get it as a stand-alone function to put it in your javascript library, then let ‘s define it as blow:

function getCurrentURL(){
var currentPageUrl = "";
if (typeof this.href === "undefined") {
currentPageUrl = document.location.toString().toLowerCase();
}
else {
currentPageUrl = this.href.toString().toLowerCase();
}
return currentPageUrl;
}

Now every time you want to get current URL, you just need to call getCurrentURL(). It ‘s quite easy to get current URL in javascritp! :).

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