The address bar is the familiar text field at the top of a web browser's graphical user interface (GUI) that displays the name or the URL (uniform resource locator) of the current web page. Users request websites and pages by typing either the name or the URL into the address bar.

An address bar is an input field in a web browser used to address a website by typing its Uniform Resource Locator (URL) into the bar. It is also known as the URL bar, location bar or Omnibox. When a website is entered into the address bar, the browser navigates to that webpage and displays it on the screen.

In a web browser, the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is the element that shows the current URL. The user can type a URL into it to navigate to a chosen website. In most modern browsers, non-URLs are automatically sent to a search engine.

It is located usually at the very top of a browser window. In the example below, we show you the address bar in the Internet Explorer browser. Address bars appear slightly different between browsers but they all do the same thing.