Location: search

The search property of the Location interface is a search string, also called a query string; that is, a USVString 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.

Syntax

string = object.search;
object.search = string;

Examples

// Let an <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/Location.search?q=123"> element be in the document
var anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
var queryString = anchor.search; // Returns:'?q=123'

// Further parsing:
let params = new URLSearchParams(queryString);
let q = parseInt(params.get("q")); // is the number 123

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard (HTML) # dom-location-search-dev

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`search`	1	12	1 Before Firefox 53, the `search` 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".	3	≤12.1	1	1	18	4 Before Firefox 53, the `search` 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".	≤12.1	1	1.0

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