Baseline Widely available
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 location's URL. If the URL does not have a search query, this property contains an empty string, ""
.
This property can be set to change the query string of the URL. When setting, a single "?"
prefix is added to the provided value, if not already present. Setting it to ""
removes the query string.
The query is percent-encoded when setting but not percent-decoded when reading.
Modern browsers provide URLSearchParams
and URL.searchParams
to make it easy to parse out the parameters from the querystring.
See URL.search
for more information.
A string.
Examples// 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 Browser compatibility
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.3