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In the following HTML:
<a id="link" href="page.htm">Page</a>
I’m finding that document.getElementById("link").href always returns the absolute path to page.htm rather than the relative path as I have typed it. See http://jsfiddle.net/4HgAW/.
Can I guarantee that javascript will always return the absolute path, in every browser?
The reason I’m asking is that I’m grabbing the http://www.... part to check which domain the link points to, and I need it to work for internal links as well.
Yes, all relevant browsers return the fully qualified URL.
If you want to retrieve the original value of the
hrefattribute (‘page.html’ in this case), you can do this:However, that doesn’t seem to work in older versions of IE (8 and below).
Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/simevidas/4HgAW/1/