How to get current url in jquery

Question

I can't explain myself in title. What i want is get string between slashes. Like that: www.example.com/foo/bar/id/1 i want to get "foo". Because i made these codes.

select: function(event, ui) {
            if(window.location.href = "news/" + ui.item.slug){
           window.location.href =null;
            }
            else
                window.location.href ="news/" + ui.item.slug;
        }

I have a autocomplete search field. When i clicked a result, its redirecting me to www.example.com/news/34523 In this page if i use search field again, it redirects me to www.example.com/news/news/12412 After that i got 404. But if i am not in news tab, for example www.example.com/foo its working perfecly when i use search field. I just need an if statement, if i am in news pages act like another page.

Possible duplicate of [Get the current URL with JavaScript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034621/get-the-current-url-with-javascript) — Pavan Sikarwar, May 07 '18 at 15:00
Do what you're doing, then use REGEX to strip out the part you want — clearshot66, May 07 '18 at 15:00

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '18 at 15:04

You could simply use the location.pathname property to get the part between the first and second slash and run code based on this.

console.log(window.location.pathname);
console.log(window.location.pathname.split("/")[1] === "foo");

To show that this works, here is another snippet, acting as if url was window.location:

let url = document.createElement('a');
url.href = "http://www.example.com/foo/bar/id/1";

console.log(url.pathname);
console.log(url.pathname.split("/")[1] === "foo");

Sure, nice to have helped you. ;-) – Luca Kiebel May 07 '18 at 15:22 — Luca Kiebel, May 07 '18 at 15:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '18 at 15:19

The problem seems to be with your url that gets redirected. Try the below code.

select: function(event, ui) {
            if(window.location.href = "/news/" + ui.item.slug){

            }
            else
                window.location.href ="/news/" + ui.item.slug;
        }

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