Liquid markup to detect current page URL?

Question

I've just recently started using Github to host my blog (using Jekyll and Liquid). However, I'm having an issue which I can't currently fix. The issue could be hacked/solved if I was able to detect which "page" or "url" the user was visiting.

Something like:

{% if user_is_currently_at_this_url %}
    {{ display something }}
{% else %}
    {{ display something else }}
{% endif %}

Is this possible? Is there any other way around this issue?

Palmary

page.url or {{ page.url | absolute_url }} in case you want to get absolute URL – Alexandros

Answer 1

page.url is the URL of the current page, without the host (e.g. /index.html), as documented in Page Variables. So, in this case:

{% if page.url == "/index.html" %}
   something
{% else %}
   other thing
{% endif %}

(However, I don't think you need this any more, your other problem is probably solved. :) )

Toul

Yes to my problem being already solved, but thank you for this :) – Palmary

page.path might be better as illustrated at github.com/jekyll/jekyll-help/issues/5#issuecomment-39033862 – Larine

This doesn't work for 404 redirects on github pages :( – Subjoinder

@LegoStormtroopr did you happen to find any solution for that? – Hillaryhillbilly

Sadly, no I did not :( – Subjoinder

This might not always return the browser's current URL. In the case of a 404, for example, the user's browser could be pointed to one URL (site.com/page/that/does/not/exist) but the rendered page's URL or path could be different (404.html, say) – Diverticulitis

Answer 2

You could use {{ canonical_url }}

Inbreathe