Get Querystring with JavaScript - Parse/Get QueryString with Client-Side JavaScript

Nearly all server-side programming languages have built-in functions to retrieve querystring values of a URL. In web browsers you can access the querystring with client-side JavaScript, but there is no standard way to parse out the name/value pairs. So here is a function to return a parameter you specify. The following javascript code snippet facilitates Javascript's built in regular expressions to retrieve value of the key. Optionally, you can specify a default value to return when key does not ...

exist.

  if (default_==null) default_="";

  key = key.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");

  var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]"+key+"=([^&#]*)");

  var qs = regex.exec(window.location.href);

  if(qs == null)

    return default_;

  else

    return qs[1];

The getQuerystring function is simple to use. Let's say you have the following URL:

http://www.bloggingdeveloper.com?author=bloggingdeveloper

and you want to get the "author" querystring's value:

var author_value = getQuerystring('author');

If you execute code shown in the above line, the author_value will be bloggingdeveloper. The query string is parsed by the regular expression and the value of the author_value parameter is retrieved. The function is smart in a couple of ways. For example, if you have an anchor in your URL like our example URL above does (#top) the getQuerystring() function knows to stop before the # character. Also, if a requested parameter doesn't exist in the query string and the default value is not specified as a function parameter then an empty string is returned instead of a null. Want automatic updates? Subscribe to our RSS feed[6] or

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