URLPattern: search property

The search read-only property of the URLPattern interface is a string containing the pattern used to match the search part of a URL.

This is the normalized value of the search pattern passed to the constructor, an inherited value from a baseURL passed to the constructor, or the default value ("*"), which matches any search part.

Value

A string.

Examples

Basic usage

The following example creates a URLPattern object with 'q=baby' for the search part and logs the property. This pattern matches any URL for which the search part includes exactly that text.

const pattern = new URLPattern({
 search: "q=baby",
});
console.log(pattern.search); // "q=baby"
console.log(pattern.test("https://example.com/shoes?q=baby")); // true

Specifications

Browser compatibility