I have this URL and wanting to know how can I remove this section from it via a jQuery event.

Need to remove:

&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1

Original URL:

.php/search/default/index/area/act?query=&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1

EDIT

Sorry i think i havent included the most important section. I should change the Address BAR url not a normal string.

for example, if i have this url in the address bar - .php/ after change, address bar should contain , without page refreshing.

I have this URL and wanting to know how can I remove this section from it via a jQuery event.

Need to remove:

&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1

Original URL:

http://somedomain./ijob-css/index.php/search/default/index/area/act?query=&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1

EDIT

Sorry i think i havent included the most important section. I should change the Address BAR url not a normal string.

for example, if i have this url in the address bar - http://somedomain./ijob-css/index.php/ after change, address bar should contain http://somedomain./xxx=111, without page refreshing.

• javascript
• jquery
• url
• url-rewriting

• 2 You could remove this from a string which was assigned the URI but is that what you want? Or do you want to actually point the browser to a new URI minus the parts you want to remove? – andrewb Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 4:54
• @andrew-buchan i want to remove the mentioned section from the URL and leave the page without refreshing. its like this, once user presses aback button he is taken here to a show a preloaded dialog box. so after showing the dialog box i need to remove that portion from URL without page is being reloaded. – dev1234 Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 4:56
• Check out the link from my answer below. I believe replaceState() is the answer for your problem. However it is not supported in all browsers/versions. History.js wraps HTML5 state features and provides additional support for HTML4 browsers. – Sanjeevi Rajagopalan Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 5:07
• possible duplicate of Modify the URL without reloading the page – davidkonrad Commented Sep 17, 2013 at 5:17

6 Answers 6

Do you mean you want the URL without the query parameter part? If then see if this helps.

var test = 'http://somedomain./ijob-css/index.php/search/default/index/area/act?query=&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1';

alert(test.substring(0, test.indexOf('?')));

If you want until first query parameter name then just seek until index of &

Update :

If you are using HTML5 then what you ask is possible. Check browser history manipulation. You can find details about this here.

I believe replaceState() is the answer for your problem. However it is not supported in all browsers/versions. History.js wraps HTML5 state features and provides additional support for HTML4 browsers.

Try this out

var new_url = old_url.substring(0, old_url.indexOf('&'));

Example: http://jsfiddle/SjrqF/

var url = 'youtube./watch?v=3sZOD3xKL0Y&feature=youtube_gdata';

url = url.slice( 0, url.indexOf('&') );

or:

Example: http://jsfiddle/SjrqF/1/

var url = 'youtube./watch?v=3sZOD3xKL0Y&feature=youtube_gdata';

url = url.split( '&' )[0];

var lastPart = 'query=';
var url = 'http://somedomain./ijob-css/index.php/search/default/index/area/act?query=&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1'.split(lastPart)[0] + lastPart;

var index = original_url.indexOf("=");
var new_url = original_url.substring(0,index+1);

See below.

var positionToSubstring = this.location.href.indexOf('&');
var newURI = this.location.href.substring(0, positionToSubstring);

use this

var test='http://somedomain./ijob-css/index.php/search/default/index/area/act?query=&activities_id=13&session_id=14&back=1';
test=test.split('&')[0];

console.log(test);

outputs

http://somedomain./ijob-css/index.php/search/default/index/area/act?query=