This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The pathname property of the Location interface is a string containing the path of the URL for the location. If there is no path, pathname will be empty: otherwise, pathname contains an initial '/' followed by the path of the URL, not including the query string or fragment.
A string.
// Let's say we are on the URL https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/pathname#examples console.log(location.pathname); // '/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/pathname'
| Specification |
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| HTML> # dom-location-pathname-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
pathname |
1 | 12 | 1Before Firefox 53, thepathname property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of https://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return "/x?a=true&b=false" rather than "/x". |
≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4Before Firefox for Android 53, thepathname property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of https://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return "/x?a=true&b=false" rather than "/x". |
≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/pathname