MathMLAnchorElement: search property
The search property of the MathMLAnchorElement interface is a search string, also called a query string, that is a string containing a "?" followed by the parameters of the <a> element's href. If the URL does not have a search query, this property contains an empty string, "".
This property can be set to change the query string of the URL. When setting, a single "?" prefix is added to the provided value, if not already present. Setting it to "" removes the query string.
The query is percent-encoded when setting but not percent-decoded when reading.
Modern browsers provide
URLSearchParams
and
URL.searchParams
to make it easy to parse out the parameters from the query string.
See URL.search for more information.
Value
A string.
Examples
Basic usage
Given this HTML:
<a id="myAnchor" href="https://example.com/subsection?q=123"> ... </a>
you can get the search string of the anchor like this:
const mathAnchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
mathAnchor.search; // returns '?q=123'
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # dom-hyperlink-search |
Browser compatibility
See also
- The MathML
<a>element