HTMLAnchorElement: search property
The HTMLAnchorElement.search property 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
URLSearchParams
and
URL.searchParams
to make it easy to parse out the parameters from the querystring.
Value
A string.
Examples
Getting the search string from an anchor link
js
// An <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement?q=123"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.search; // returns '?q=123'
Advanced parsing using URLSearchParams
Alternatively, URLSearchParams can be used:
js
let params = new URLSearchParams(queryString);
let q = parseInt(params.get("q")); // returns the number 123
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-hyperlink-search-dev |
Browser compatibility
| desktop | mobile | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
search | |||||||||||
See also
- The
HTMLAnchorElementinterface it belongs to.