location: search property
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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