Name
Document.URL — the URL of the current document
Availability
JavaScript 1.1
Synopsis
document
.URL
Description
URL
is a read-only string property that contains the complete URL of the
current document
.
document
.URL
is usually
equal to
window
.location.href
for the window
that contains
document
. These two are not always equal,
however, because the Document.URL
property may be
modified through URL
redirection -- Window.location
contains the
requested URL, and Document.URL
specifies the
actual URL where it was found.
Usage
Some web authors like to include the URL of a document somewhere within the document so, for example, if the document is cut-and-pasted to a file or printed out, there is still a reference to its location online. The following script, when appended to a document, automatically adds the document’s URL:
<script> document.write('<p><hr><small><i>URL: ' + document.URL + '</i></small>'); </script>
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