Web/API/URL/search

The search property of the URL 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 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.

Syntax

const searchParams = object.search
url.search = newSearchParams

Value

A USVString.

Examples

const url = new URL('https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/search?q=123');
console.log(url.search); // Logs "?q=123"

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
URLThe definition of 'URL.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 13	Firefox Full support 53 Full support 53 No support 22 — 53 Notes' Notes' `pathname` and `search` returned the wrong values so that 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.	IE No support No	Opera Full support Yes	Safari Full support 10	WebView Android Full support Yes	Chrome Android Full support Yes	Firefox Android Full support 53 Full support 53 No support 22 — 53 Notes' Notes' `pathname` and `search` returned the wrong values so that 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.	Opera Android Full support Yes	Safari iOS Full support Yes	Samsung Internet Android Full support Yes

Legend

Full support: Full support
No support: No support
See implementation notes.': See implementation notes.