Question

Not sure if this is inapropriate albeit it working fine.

In order to move to a new location and retain the root URL, I do examples like this :

window.location = window.location.href.split('/oldbar')[0] + '/foobar/' + $value

window.location = window.location.href.split(/oldbar/)[0] + 'foobar';

window.location = window.location.href.split('/oldbar')[0] + '/foobar/'

Would you do it differently? If so how / why?

Answer 1

You don’t need to split up the href when you can just access the pathname property of the location object:

// not really sure what you're trying to do, but...
window.location.pathname = window.location.pathname + "/foobar/";

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location