Note: This site is currently "Under construction". I'm migrating to a new version of my site building software. Lots of things are in a state of disrepair as a result (for example, footnote links aren't working). It's all part of the process of building in public. Most things should still be readable though.

Get The Current URL For A Browser Page

To get the URL from the current window use:

Code

window.location.href

The reason to use this over `document.URL`` is that the document version doesn't always update if an "#" anchor is added to the URL