I have a jobs website with several different job description pages and with 1 application page with a form.

i.e.

/admin-clark -> /application

/sale-rep -> /application

I would like to pre-populate an input field in the form with the id #jobTitle.

I would like to do the following-

• Get the previous URL


• Store it in local storage


• Sanatize url(remove dashes etc)


• Use jQuery to fill in the field with id jobTitle

Or is a there a better way of doing this?

This is what I have so far

var pathname = window.location.path.replace(/^?$/, '').toUpperCase();

localStorage.setItem(pathname , pathname );

$('#jobTitle').val(pathname);