How to use current address url in jquery [duplicate]

Question

I have a code to get number of shares of particular url. The url value is equal to the value we type in a text box.

Jsfiddle

Part of the code

html

 <input type="text" class="form-control" id="urlInput" />

Jquery

$('#getJSON').click(function () {
    $('#data-tab').fadeOut();
    $URL = $('#urlInput').val();

    totalShares($URL);

    $('#data-tab').fadeIn();

});

So , here $URL is equal to the value of text box.I need to change it so that $url changes to the value of current address bar url

I am bit new to jquery.I tried searching a lot. I tried replacing it document.url and location.href but it still doesn;t work.

Any tips? thanks

Edit:

I know the terminologies of the code console.log(window.location.href); ,window.location.href. however, when i use in the code, they don't seem to work

Answer 1

This has got to have been answered already, but have you tried.. console.log(window.location.href);? var url = document.URL? This isn't PHP, variables tend not to start with $

Answer 2

The url for the page your script is running on can be accessed by document.URL

Answer 3

You don't need jQuery for this. In JavaScript, it's like this:

var url = document.location;

Answer 4

To get Current Path:Use->

$(location).attr('href');

where location is an object.

You can get other properties of this objects from web browsers console window.