window.location = 'http://...';

now I want to assign this location path to a variable, as a normal text string. I want to achieve:

var Path = 'http://...';

i tried to use:

var Path = window.location;

but I get, as this var value:

function Path() { [native code] }

while I want to have the location text string as its value..

window.location = 'http://...';

now I want to assign this location path to a variable, as a normal text string. I want to achieve:

var Path = 'http://...';

i tried to use:

var Path = window.location;

but I get, as this var value:

function Path() { [native code] }

while I want to have the location text string as its value..

• javascript
• string
• window.location

4 Answers 4

You want location.href. The location object is rather more complicated than a simple string.

This should work (though I didn't test):

var path = window.location.href;

Yes, window.location is an object, its href property returns the entire URL.

See here for a reference on the location object (location's other properties & functions can be useful): http://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location

You can try

var Path = window.location.toString();