Sets or retrieves the URL for the current document.
Syntax
document.URL [ = sURL ]
Possible Values
sURL | String that
specifies or receives the URL. |
The property is read/write.
The property has no default value.
Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties.
Remarks
The URL property is case-sensitive.
This property is an alias for the location.href property on the window.
Example
This example function returns the URL property of the current document.
function getURL()
{
return document.URL;
}
Standards Information
This property is defined in
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .
Applies To
See Also
urn, URLUnencoded