Location: pathname

The pathname property of the Location interface is a USVString containing the path of the URL for the location, which will be the empty string if there is no path.

Syntax

string = object.pathname;
object.pathname = string;

Examples

// Let's an <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/Location.pathname"> element be in the document
var anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
var result = anchor.pathname; // Returns:'/en-US/docs/Location.pathname'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard (HTML) # dom-location-pathname-dev

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`pathname`	1	12	1 Before Firefox 53, the `pathname` property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, `pathname` would return "/x?a=true&b=false" rather than "/x".	3 Internet Explorer does not provide the leading slash character in the `pathname` (`docs/Web/API/Location` instead of `/docs/Web/API/Location`).	≤12.1	1	1	18	4 Before Firefox 53, the `pathname` property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, `pathname` would return "/x?a=true&b=false" rather than "/x".	≤12.1	1	1.0

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/pathname