Detect current page with JavaScript [duplicate]

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I'm wondering if Javascript can detect what page the user is on. Say for example that the user is on a "About" or "Contact" page, can JavaScript check if the pathway is "/About" or "/Contact" and then take action accordingly ? How would that code look like? I appreciate if anyone could give me a code sample

if(location.href=='/contacts')document.body.innerHTML=""; check the location, set the body html to empty string. — nicael
– nicael, Commented Nov 19, 2015 at 13:51
When you searched on Google for "javascript get current URL", you didn't find anything? — David
– David, Commented Nov 19, 2015 at 13:54
Look, I googled your title and came up with 9,640,000 results, and everything on the first page is exactly what people here are telling you to do... — Howard Renollet
– Howard Renollet, Commented Nov 19, 2015 at 14:00
So you people who are telling OP to search, do you not know how to close questions as a duplicate? You people sound very rude to a new user here. — epascarello
– epascarello, Commented Nov 19, 2015 at 14:02

Martín · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19 13:51:21Z

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For example, you can get the URL by doing this:

window.location.href

answered Nov 19, 2015 at 13:51

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epascarello · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19 13:58:47Z

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If you want to know what age they are on, it really depends on the url structure. But you will get the information with window.location.pathname

var pathname = window.location.pathname;
switch(pathname) {
   case "/home" :
       console.log("home");
       break;
   case "/game" :
       console.log("game");
       break;
}

answered Nov 19, 2015 at 13:58

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