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Creating a new Location object in javascript

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Is it possible to create a new Location object in javascript? I have a url as a string and I would like to leverage what javascript already provides to gain access to the different parts of it.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about (I know this doesn't work):

var url = new window.location(http://www.example.com/some/path?name=value#anchor);

var protocol = url.protocol;

var hash = url.hash;

// etc etc

Is anything like this possible or would I essentially have to create this object myself?

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answered 14 Years ago terrellhunterm · Accepted Answer

Well, you could use an anchor element to extract the url parts, for example:

var url = document.createElement('a');

url.href = http://www.example.com/some/path?name=value#anchor;

var protocol = url.protocol;

var hash = url.hash;



alert('protocol: ' + protocol);

alert('hash: ' + hash);

It works on all modern browsers and even on IE 5.5+.

Check an example here.