Location: toString() method

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 toString() stringifier method of the Location interface returns a string containing the whole URL. It is a read-only version of Location.href.

Syntax

js
toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string representing the object's URL.

Examples

js
// Let's imagine this code is executed on https://example.com/path?search#hash
const result = window.location.toString(); // Returns: 'https://example.com/path?search#hash'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-location-href-dev

Browser compatibility

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