javascript - jQuery/JS: Get current URL parent directory

Question

From:

http://www.site.com/example/index.html

How can I get just:

http://www.site.com/example/

And storing it into a variable using Javascript and how using jQuery also. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

var myURL = "http://www.site.com/example/index.html";
var myDir = myURL.substring( 0, myURL.lastIndexOf( "/" ) + 1);