How to retrieve the whole URL with parameters?

Question

I need to retrieve the whole URL with the parameters as a string. For example, I need to retrieve the following URL:

http://www.keytometals.com/page.aspx?ID=CheckArticle&site=kts&LN=EN&NM=349

I've tried to use:

document.location.href,
document.URL,
window.location.href

but it retrieves just a part of URL:

http://www.keytometals.com/page.aspx

How to get the string containing the current URL as well as its parameters?

One update: I've used the

window.content.document.location.href

and I've got the following URL:

http://www.keytometals.com/page.aspx?ID=CheckArticle

Unfortunately, it is still the part of URL. Can somebody help me how to get the whole URL as a string?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use window.location.href for the entire URL (including the query string).

Take a look at Mozilla's documentation for more information and other properties.

Here is another good StackOverflow post on how to Parse query string in JavaScript.

Answer 2

You need just plain document.location -- that will include everything. You'll need to write your own code to split it at the ? to get just the query string, and then split that into name/value pairs at each &.

EDIT:

Actually, you can use location.search as well. Here's a snippet I wrote for this:

function loadQueryString(){ 
    var parameters = {}; 
    var searchString = location.search.substr(1); 
    var pairs = searchString.split("&"); 
    var parts;
    for(i = 0; i < pairs.length; i++){
        parts = pairs[i].split("=");
        var name = parts[0];
        var data = decodeURI(parts[1]);
        parameters[name] = data;
    }
    return parameters;
}

params = loadQueryString();