How can I get the current directory name in Javascript?

I'm trying to get the current directory of the file in Javascript so I can use that to trigger a different jquery function for each section of my site.

if (current_directory) = "example" {
var activeicon = ".icon_one span";
};
elseif (current_directory) = "example2" {
var activeicon = ".icon_two span";
};
else {
var activeicon = ".icon_default span";
};

$(activeicon).show();
...

Any ideas?

window.location.pathname will get you the directory, as well as the page name. You could then use .substring() to get the directory:

var loc = window.location.pathname;
var dir = loc.substring(0, loc.lastIndexOf('/'));

Hope this helps!

In Node.js, you could use:

console.log('Current directory: ' + process.cwd());

You can use window.location.pathname.split('/');

That will produce an array with all of the items between the /'s

This will work for actual paths on the file system if you're not talking the URL string.

var path = document.location.pathname;
var directory = path.substring(path.indexOf('/'), path.lastIndexOf('/'));

complete URL

If you want the complete URL e.g. http://website/basedirectory/workingdirectory/ use:

var location = window.location.href;
var directoryPath = location.substring(0, location.lastIndexOf("/")+1);

local path

If you want the local path without domain e.g. /basedirectory/workingdirectory/ use:

var location = window.location.pathname;
var directoryPath = location.substring(0, location.lastIndexOf("/")+1);

In case you don't need the slash at the end, remove the +1 after location.lastIndexOf("/")+1.

directory name

If you only want the current directory name, where the script is running in, e.g. workingdirectory use:

var location = window.location.pathname;
var path = location.substring(0, location.lastIndexOf("/"));
var directoryName = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf("/")+1);