Redirect to previous ROUTE in Javascript

Question

Suppose I'm on this page:

http://example.com/users/BECCA/edit/advanced

I want to redirect the user to:

http://example.com/users/BECCA/edit

How can I do this?

(I'm also familiar with window.history.back(); but my question is something else!)

Thanks.

Read up on [String.split](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split). — Mike Cluck, Mar 27 '15 at 22:11
Have you ever saw this ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/503093/how-can-i-make-a-redirect-page-using-jquery — Daniel.V, Mar 27 '15 at 22:13
@sky this-> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/503093/how-can-i-make-a-redirect-page-using-jquery — Daniel.V, Mar 27 '15 at 22:15
possible duplicate of [How can I get query string values in JavaScript?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values-in-javascript) — NinjaCat, Mar 27 '15 at 22:17
@sky did you consider this before?window.location.replace("http://example.com/users/BECCA/edit") — Daniel.V, Mar 27 '15 at 22:18
@Dan Looks like OP is searching for universal solution, like the one [I provided](http://stackoverflow.com/a/29311050). — nicael, Mar 27 '15 at 22:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '15 at 22:13

1

Split your current location into an array using delimiter /
Remove the last object in this array
Join the objects into string taking / as delimiter

location.href=location.href.split("/").slice(0,-1).join("/");

answered Mar 27 '15 at 22:13

nicael

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '15 at 22:52

The first answer is right but just have one problem, it does't work for http://example.com/
So the better code should be this:

var url = location.href.split("/");
if(url.lenght == 3){
//the url is http://example.com/ do what ever you want
}
else{
     location.href=url.slice(0,-1).join("/");
}

Redirect to previous ROUTE in Javascript

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