window.location.href

Summary

The full url for this resource. Synonymous with String(window.location).

Property of apis/locationapis/location

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var result = window.location.href;

Return Value

Returns an object of type StringString

The full url for this resource.

For example, http://example.org/index.html?page=1#foo would return the full href of http://example.org/index.html?page=1#foo.

Examples

window.location.href is the same as the toString method of window.location, so you can choose to use either variable when using comparing as a string.

if(window.location == window.location.href){
    // This equates to true
    alert("These values are the same.")/
}

Related specifications

Window Object 1.0

W3C Working Draft