This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2018.
The documentURI read-only property of the Document interface returns the document location as a string.
A string.
document.getElementById("url").textContent = document.documentURI;
<p id="urlText"> URL:<br /> <span id="url">URL goes here</span> </p>
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM> # ref-for-dom-document-documenturi①> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
documentURI |
1 | 17 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
document.URL property which returns the same value.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/documentURI