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Location: pathname property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

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

js
// 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
# dom-location-pathname-dev

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
pathname
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote
footnote Before Firefox 53, the pathname property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of https://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return "/x?a=true&b=false" rather than "/x".
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 1 (Release date: 2003-06-23)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote
footnote Before Firefox for Android 53, the pathname property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of https://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return "/x?a=true&b=false" rather than "/x".
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Deno – No support
Deno 1.7 (Release date: 2021-01-19)
disabled
disabled From version 1.7 users must explicitly set the --location [url] runtime flag.

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Full support
No support
See implementation notes.
User must explicitly enable this feature.

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