HTMLAreaElement: search property
The HTMLAreaElement.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 area link
js
// An <area id="myArea" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAreaElement?q=123"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementById("myArea");
area.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 |
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HTML Standard # dom-hyperlink-search-dev |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
- The
HTMLAreaElement
interface it belongs to.