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22Mar/0827

Go to Home

The best ideas come from finding something you do all the time, realize you do it, and then automate it.

With me, I discovered that I frequently go to the base domain of a website by going to the URL, highlighting and deleting the junk on the end of the domain name and then pressing enter. I HATE doing it. I also have to do it when websites don't link to their home page.

So here's an easy solution. A bookmarklet!

Drag the link below to your bookmarks bar (or in IE, right-click and add to favorites):

Go to Home

Here is the code:

var url = new String(location.href);var re = new RegExp('https?://([A-Za-z0-9.-]+)');var res = url.match(re);location.href=res[0];

Enjoy :)

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  1. Goatrider
    March 23rd, 2008 - 03:39

    I didn’t realize I needed this until I saw it. Thank you, clever man.

  2. Tolli
    August 30th, 2008 - 00:48

    I do that a lot two, luckily I found a Firefox add-on that allows me to navigate up a level. It’s called uppity: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/869

  4. Jeff
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:19

    Thanks! This is one of those things you wonder how you did without.

  5. Teddy
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:26

    Um… brilliant. Fucking brilliant.

  6. Xasey
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:44

    Also, if one is using Safari they can right click on the page title at the top of the window to go to there as well.

  7. Lonestar
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:49

    Here’s the ubiquity command for the same functionality:

    CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
    name: “root”,
    _root: function() {
    var doc = Application.activeWindow.activeTab.document;
    var uri = doc.location.href;
    var re = new RegExp(“^[A-Za-z0-9.-]+://([^/]+)”);
    var res = uri.match(re);
    return res && res[0];
    },
    preview: function(pblock) {
    var msg = ‘Go to: “${rootUri}“‘;
    pblock.innerHTML = CmdUtils.renderTemplate( msg, {rootUri: this._root()} );
    },
    execute: function() {
    doc.location = this._root();
    }
    })

  8. nido
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:51

    https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/misc.html#top has been around forever, to save you some time in the future. There’s a ton more great ones on that site.

  9. nido
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:53

    javascript:location.pathname = “”; void 0

    is also much simpler :)

  10. Stu
    August 30th, 2008 - 01:58

    Or.. just click on the logo of the website, will do it for 90% of websites

  11. Randall Merkin
    August 30th, 2008 - 02:21

    Hi I tried dragging it to my address bar but I got this error:

    [an error occurred while processing this directive]

    Please check your code works in IE

  12. OJ
    August 30th, 2008 - 06:24

    Or you could use the location bar plugin for Firefox. Does this and WAY more.

  13. Maray
    August 30th, 2008 - 10:14

    Thank you !!!!

  14. SueDoc
    August 30th, 2008 - 10:51

    Wonderful! Thank you!

  15. buccia
    August 30th, 2008 - 11:11

    Also, the Vimperator plugin for Firefox does this (and also single-level-up) with the gu and gU keys.

  17. Lisa
    August 30th, 2008 - 14:47

    Pretty cool. Thanks!

  18. fearphage
    August 31st, 2008 - 02:15

    This is very sad code. It is obvious you haven’t worked with javascript very much. For instance, location.href alread returns a string always. This code could be greatly simplified:

    javascript:location.href = location.protocol + ‘//’ + location.host

  19. billy
    September 1st, 2008 - 23:36

    Thanks everyone for the comments, suggestions and other product advice.

    Fearphage — there’s always multiple ways to do something. That doesn’t make one worse than the other. location.host adds the port to the URL — I find that ugly.

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    September 10th, 2009 - 18:31

    Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

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