JavaScript - Get url from window without submitting it

Question

So I have a page that I want to retrieve the URL from but I want to get the current text that is written there regardless of if the url was submitted or not (imagine if the user entered a page and decided to change the val=sfbdjkfg directly through the url but didn't submit it )

So window.location.href is not what I want because I have to submit to get the URL

Is there any way to do this? What about using a javaScript framework that uses dynamic routes?

Answer 1

There's no such way via javascript to interact with browser UI components such as URL bar or "add as bookmark" button unless your browser provides that. Browser itself act as a wrapper/client that provides specific APIs and surely not to open gates to access the outside of it, for security reasons.