Question

I have looked and looked for an answer to this question. So I apologize in advance when the solution is very easy.

I want to take the url of the current page eg. http://www.example.com/example.html and put this in a link (among other uses) using javascript.

so it would look like this:

<a href"www.example.com/example.html"></a>

I’ve tried lots of things I know I need to use location.href but just can’t seem to get it to work.

This is the closest I got to getting it to work,:

<a href"javascript:write.location.href;"></a>

Thanks, sorry again. I’m new to JS and html.

J

Answer 1

Name your element with an ID, like: <a id="pageLink"></a> and then when the document loads you can run this snippet:

var link = document.getElementById("pageLink");
link.setAttribute("href", window.location.href);

Or, with something like jQuery:

$("#pageLink").attr("href", window.location.href);

EDIT In response to your question in the comments:

I’m not sure I’m understanding you completely but if it’s fixed, then you’d simply concatenate to the href before setting it, e.g.

$("#pageLink").attr("href", staticUrl + window.location.href);