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.
A string.
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
| Specification |
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| HTML Standard # dom-location-search-dev |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
search |
1 | 12 |
1Before Firefox 53, thesearch property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, search would return "", rather than "?a=true&b=false".
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3 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 4.4 | 18 |
4Before Firefox 53, thesearch property returned wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, search would return "", rather than "?a=true&b=false".
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≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/search