how to get a var from url

value of 'what' in page.htm?what=soup

[carsten888]

How to get a value of a variable from a url?

var url;
url = location.href;

url is then only the string without the variable 'what'.
if it would return the complete url I could substring things.

anyone?

[DrDoc]

I guess I don't really get what you are saying. From the thread title I deduce one thing, but from your post another. :)

location.href

by default returns the entire URL, including the query string (if any).
To directly access the query string, however, use

location.search

[Bernard Marx]

Agreed. A little bit confusing.
The meat is in the subtitle though.

Did this yesterday:
[webmasterworld.com...]
(post #2)

[carsten888]

thanks.

I did not realize my question was so difficult to understand.

I couldn't get it to work because I only later realized The page was in a frameset and the url within the frameset did not have those vars. sorry about that. thanks for that great function!