The search property of the URL 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 the URL.searchParams property to make it easy to parse out the parameters from the query string.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
A string.
js
const url = new URL(
"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/search?q=123",
);
console.log(url.search); // Logs "?q=123"
| Specification |
|---|
| URL Standard # dom-url-search |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
search |
32 | 13 |
22Before Firefox 53,pathname and search returned wrong values for custom protocols. Given protocol:host/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. See bug 1310483.
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No | 19 | 10 | 4.4.3 | 32 |
22Before Firefox 53,pathname and search returned wrong values for custom protocols. Given protocol:host/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. See bug 1310483.
|
19 | 10 | 2.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/search