URLSearchParams: 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 April 2018.

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The toString() method of the URLSearchParams interface returns a query string suitable for use in a URL.

Note: This method returns the query string without the question mark. This is different from Location.search, HTMLAnchorElement.search, and URL.search, which all include the question mark.

Syntax

js
toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string, without the question mark. Returns an empty string if no search parameters have been set. Characters in the application/x-www-form-urlencoded percent-encode set (which contains all code points except ASCII alphanumeric, *, -, ., and _) are percent-encoded, and U+0020 SPACE is encoded as +.

Examples

js
const url = new URL("https://example.com?foo=1&bar=2");
const params = new URLSearchParams(url.search);

// Add a second foo parameter.
params.append("foo", 4);
console.log(params.toString()); // Prints 'foo=1&bar=2&foo=4'

Specifications

Specification
URL
# urlsearchparams-stringification-behavior

Browser compatibility

See also