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How to detect your website user's location using javascript

Getting Website vistor's location in Js Hi there,in today's tutorial i am going to show you how you can get your Visitor's location using JavaScript Detecting the location of your website’s users is useful for a variety of reasons. You might, for instance, want to display different content, perhaps in different languages for people from different countries, or display targeted information to visitors from different locations,maybe to show them ads based on their location and much more. Whatever your reasons might be, you have two options: The Geolocation API and IP address lookup The geolocation API It is a new feature in HTML5 that allows a web page’s visitor to share their location with you if they so choose to(the choice is theirs to make). When you try to retrieve the location using this API , a prompt is being displayed to the user, asking them if they’d like to share their location with your website. Well, this obviously means that you won’t get the location...