Location: search property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The search property of the Location
interface is a search string, also called a query string; that is, a
string containing a '?' followed by the parameters of the
URL.
Modern browsers provide
URLSearchParams
and
URL.searchParams
to make it easy to parse out the parameters from the querystring.
Value
A string.
Examples
js
// Let an <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/Location.search?q=123"> element be in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
const queryString = anchor.search; // Returns:'?q=123'
// Further parsing:
const params = new URLSearchParams(queryString);
const q = parseInt(params.get("q")); // is the number 123
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-location-search-dev |
Browser compatibility
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