Question

I have a ‘send to friend’ form on a client’s web site. The form works great
except for one thing – I can’t get the URL of the current page to auto-populate
in the textarea on the form.

http://www.litigationbusters.com/expert-witness.shtml

If you scroll down to the bottom, in the lighter blue bar is a ‘Send’ link. Click
it and the form will appear.

I am hoping to be able to do this using jQuery or something else equally platform
independent, since the site is on a Windows server for now, but may be moving to
a Linux server in the near future.

Thanks!

Answer 1

To get the URL of the current page with jQuery, you can use

$(location).attr('href')

or to simply read the current URL without jQuery, you can use

document.URL

To populate the textarea with that value when the page loads

$(document).ready(function() {
    var message = 'check out ' + document.URL;
    $('#message').text(message);
});