Current Filename

[Borvik]

I'm looking for a way to get the current filename from an included js file (not the js file the page's file).

Here is what I have so far.

index.html

    <script src="jsFile.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

jsFile.js

//var sPath = window.location.pathname;
//var sPage = sPath.substring(sPath.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1);
var sPath = window.fileName;//window.location.host;
//var sPage = sPath.substring(sPath.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
alert(sPath);

As you can see I've tried pulling the location from several different locations (including several "document" properties).

There is a problem with many of the methods that I found. All the methods are based on the URL of the page - the URL you see in the address bar. This can cause a problem if the page is index.html which is accessible from

http://localhost/index.html

or

http://localhost.

I need to have the javascript return the current filename regardless of what the visible URL is (or invisible in the case of frames). Note: index.html is just an example - it could very easily be index.php, default.html, default.php, index.aspx, etc... - anything that would be a default page.

Any ideas on how to do this?

 

[grtammi]

http://forums.macnn.com/79/developer-center/236200/javascript-get-current-html-filename/

Greg

 

[Borvik]

Yes, but it does not fit the requirements (I have tried that one too).

If you use that with your page being "

http://domain.com/"

you would not get a filename. You would only get a filename if you specified "

http://domain.com/default.html".

That is where the difficulty lies - in getting the filename for those default pages.