How to match URL with href in jQuery?

Question

Using a list for navigation, I am looking for a clean way to apply the \'selected\' class to a list item if the page URL (minus anything after the path) matches the href of the

Answer 1

Assuming there isn't any '?' character in the actual path you could use something like this for both the location and the href:

function getBaseURL(url) {
    return url.split('?')[0];
}