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Javascript: getting location.search out of any url?

Answer 1

+2 A:

[edited based on @Nick's comment]

alert('http://www.anydomain.com/hello/?path=xyz'.split('?', 1)[1]);

karim79 2010-07-19 00:05:45

+1 - Should be `.split('?', 1)` though, in case there's a `?` later :)

Nick Craver 2010-07-19 00:07:25

Nice one, Nick. Can a '?' even legitimately occur more than once? In any case, I won't edit that in, as your comment does the trick :)

karim79 2010-07-19 00:08:34

@karim79: Yes, I've seen URLs with several `?`s in the past.

casablanca 2010-07-19 00:14:42

It can happen, but any URL with a non-encoded ? after the first ? is malformed. Some browsers (servers? languages?) will ignore anything following the second one. Others just discard the subsequent ?s.

Alex JL 2010-07-19 00:18:41

This will also include any #anchor at the end of the URL, it won't just be the query string

Gareth 2010-07-19 00:19:04

man, me=dumb! thank you

2010-07-19 00:19:20

@mathiregister - Be advised, @Gareth's solution is the better one.

karim79 2010-07-19 00:20:36

Answer 2

+2 A:

The location properties like .search are also available on <a> elements. So, create an <a> element dynamically and set it's href, and you should be able to access those properties.

var a = document.createElement('a')
a.href = "..."
console.log(a.search)

Gareth 2010-07-19 00:08:11

+1 - does it exactly like the browser would, ignoring hashes etc.

Anurag 2010-07-19 00:15:51

Answer 3

A:

vide this example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/get-querystring-with-jquery/3220791#3220791

Jet 2010-07-19 00:11:28

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