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Albion

Albion

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I'm trying to get the filename of the current page. I've tried using document.location.href and it works only part of the time. It seems that the object only contains what is in the address bar. For instance and both display index.html, but only the second will supply document.location.href the actual path AND filename.

Is there a way to get the current file name whether it's in the address bar or not?
 
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Hi

Albion said:
Is there a way to get the current file name whether it's in the address bar or not?
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Only the web server knows what is actually served.

Your only solution is to put the server or the server-side script which generated the document to set a corresponding JavaScript variable. But if your index file is a static HTML file, then there is no way.

But why not just add 'index.html' yourself if [tt]location.href[/tt] not contains it ?

Feherke.
 
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That's exactly what I did.

I added:

Code: 
<div id="idCurrentFilename" style="display:none">index.html</div>

to the <body> of index.html, and then to my script:

Code: 
if(document.getElementById('idCurrentFilename') != null) {
    var fileName = document.getElementById('idCurrentFilename').innerHTML;
} else {
    var filename = "";
}

Works perfectly.
 
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personally i'd use a hidden input field for storing client side variable data.

Rather than hiding something with CSS that might not work if CSS is disabled and could be seen as stealth by the search engines!

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@1DMF: That's actually a better idea. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

@Diancecht: I have some jQuery code that works on multiple pages. I want it to run differently if the user is on the index.html page. Instead of creating the same code twice increasing the size, I figured I could add a conditional depending on the page that the user was looking at. That would decrease the amount of code a user downloads by at least 50 lines in my situation.

-Al
 
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