Location: pathname property

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The pathname property of the Location interface is a string containing the path of the URL for the location. If there is no path, pathname will be empty: otherwise, pathname contains an initial '/' followed by the path of the URL, not including the query string or fragment.

Value

A string.

Examples

// Let's say we are on the URL https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/pathname#examples
console.log(location.pathname); // '/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/pathname'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # dom-location-pathname-dev

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