How to Easily Remove Unwanted Text from window.location.href using jQuery

Описание: Learn how to remove trailing text from your URL in jQuery by modifying the `window.location.href`, ensuring clean and accurate links for your projects.
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How to Remove Last Text After / from window.location.href using jQuery

When working on web projects, handling URLs can be a common challenge. Perhaps you have found yourself in a situation where your current URL has unnecessary components that you want to remove. For example, consider the following URL that includes multiple instances of an unwanted fragment:

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In this guide, we'll explore how to extract the clean base URL from the above example by removing everything after the last /. This technique can be useful for ensuring that the URLs you work with in your JavaScript code remain clean and relevant.

The Problem

In your existing jQuery code, you attempted to isolate a portion of the URL using the split() method, as shown below:

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While this successfully retrieves the first fragment after the # , it is not what you desired. Instead, you want to store the base URL:

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The Solution

To achieve the desired result, you can modify your code to extract the substring of the URL up to the last /. This removes any unwanted fragments and gives you a clean URL. Here’s how to do it:

Step-by-Step Code Change

1. Update Your Current Code

Change the line where you're attempting to store the URL value. Instead of using split(), you will use the substr() method along with lastIndexOf() to find the last occurrence of the / character. Here is the corrected code:

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2. Explanation of the Code

window.location.href: Fetches the complete URL from the browser’s address bar.

lastIndexOf('/'): Finds the index of the last / in the URL string.

substr(start, length): Returns a part of the string from the start index for the specified length. In this case, it goes from the beginning of the URL to the last / + 1 (to include the / itself).

3. Result Check

You can verify the result by logging the variable to the console:

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Conclusion

By following the above method, you can efficiently strip away unwanted parts of your URL using jQuery and JavaScript. This approach is not only straightforward but also ensures that your URLs remain concise and accurate—key for any web development project.

Feel free to use this method whenever you encounter similar URL formatting challenges in your projects. Happy coding!