How do I add a statement in javascript based on the current url?

Question

Basically I want to check what url the user is on and compare it to a default value and then run a statement

Let's say my url is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask, I'm trying to do this, and it's not working:

<script type="text/javascript">
      if(document.location.href('/questions/ask') > 0)
  {
    [do this];
  }

Thanks for the help(noob question I know)

Bob · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-08 00:16:56Z

1

Give this a try, you are missing the indexOf method.

if(document.location.href.indexOf('/questions/ask') > -1)

But I believe you should be going off of the window object, I think document is deprecated (but still works).

if(window.location.href.indexOf('/questions/ask') > -1)

You also want to check to see if the index is greater than negative one because zero is technically a correct position.

answered Nov 8, 2009 at 0:16

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Andrei Serdeliuc ॐ · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-08 00:18:24Z

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Try this:

var loc = new String(window.location);
if(loc.match('/questions/ask')) {
    // do something here
}

answered Nov 8, 2009 at 0:18

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seanmonstar · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-08 00:18:41Z

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window.location.href gives you the whole url. You can also access other properties of location, like protocol, pathname, hash, host.

if(window.location.pathname == '/questions/ask')

answered Nov 8, 2009 at 0:18

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