Question

how can i remove a querystring of an url when clicking a button? my url looks like this:

http://www.mysite.com/?tx_felogin_pi1%5Bforgot%5D=1

this page shows a form for getting the new password, everything is inside an overlaybox. when the user suddenly remembers his userdata again, i need to provide a link in the box to go back to the signin form (also inside an overlaybox), but i can not use a fix url, because the link (and the overlaybox) should be accessable on every page. so i need a link which removes the querystring, independet of the url before.

i tried this, but it won’t work:

    function getPathFromUrl(url) {
      return url.split("?")[0];
    }
    // from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2540969/remove-querystring-from-url

    $("#querystring").click(getPathFromUrl);

the error in my console is: url.split is not a function…

Answer 1

What is url? You have to get the url from the window.location object:

$("#querystring").click(function(){
    window.location.href = window.location.href.split('?')[0];
});