How to get the URL without any parameters in JavaScript?

Question

If I use:

alert(window.location.href);

I get everything including query strings. Is there a way to just get the main url part, for example:

Answer 1

Every answer is rather convoluted. Here:

var url = window.location.href.split('?')[0];

Even if a ? isn't present, it'll still return the first argument, which will be your full URL, minus query string.

It's also protocol-agnostic, meaning you could even use it for things like ftp, itunes.etc.