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window.location.search

Summary

The search property contains the query string portion of the current url.

Property of apis/locationapis/location

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var result = window.location.search;

Return Value

Returns an object of type StringString

The query string portion of the URL. This includes the question mark, and everything following, excluding the hash.

For example, http://example.org/?page=1&mode=b#foo would return the query string ?page=1&mode=b.

Examples

The following example assumes your document has a div element with id 'hostDiv’, like this.

// Get the query string from window.location
var hostqs = window.location.search;

// Get a div element with id 'hostDiv'
var container = document.getElementById('hostDiv');

// Fill in the div element with the query string
container.innerHTML = hostqs;

Related specifications

Window Object 1.0
W3C Working Draft