The HTMLAnchorElement.search property 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.
A string.
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// An <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement?q=123"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.search; // returns '?q=123'
Alternatively, URLSearchParams can be used:
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let params = new URLSearchParams(queryString);
let q = parseInt(params.get("q")); // returns the number 123
| Specification |
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| HTML Standard # dom-hyperlink-search-dev |
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search |
1 | 12 |
1Before Firefox 53, thepathname and search HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils properties returned the wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return '/x?a=true&b=false' and search would return '', rather than '/x' and '?a=true&b=false' respectively. This has now been fixed.
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5.5 | 15 | 1 | 4.4 | 18 |
4Before Firefox 53, thepathname and search HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils properties returned the wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return '/x?a=true&b=false' and search would return '', rather than '/x' and '?a=true&b=false' respectively. This has now been fixed.
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14 | 1 | 1.0 |
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