Web/API/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="https://developer.mozilla.org/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	Status	Comment
HTML Living StandardThe definition of 'search' in that specification.	Living Standard	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

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	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet
search	Chrome Full support Yes	Edge Full support 12	Firefox Full support 22 Notes' Full support 22 Notes' Notes' 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".	IE Full support Yes	Opera Full support Yes	Safari Full support Yes	WebView Android Full support Yes	Chrome Android Full support Yes	Firefox Android Full support 22 Notes' Full support 22 Notes' Notes' 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".	Opera Android Full support Yes	Safari iOS Full support Yes	Samsung Internet Android Full support Yes

Legend

Full support  

Full support

See implementation notes.'

See implementation notes.

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