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Location: search property
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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 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.
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"), 10); // is the number 123
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