As a note to others using document.createElement to manipulate URLs. While it seems like a neat tool, it is buggy in IE in other ways[1]. I would advise using a

As a note to others using document.createElement to manipulate URLs. While it seems like a neat tool, it is buggy in IE in other ways[1]. I would advise using a cross-browser library (or writing your own): - https://code.google.com/p/jsuri/ https://code.google.com/p/jsuri/ - http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/ http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/ [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/956233/javascript-pathname-ie-quirk http://stackoverflow.com/questions/956233/javascript-pathnam...