This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2016.
The toString() stringifier method of the Location interface returns a string containing the whole URL. It is a read-only version of Location.href.
toString()
None.
A string representing the object's URL.
// Let's imagine this code is executed on https://example.com/path?search#hash const result = window.location.toString(); // Returns: 'https://example.com/path?search#hash'
| Specification |
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| HTML> # dom-location-href-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
toString |
52 | 12 | 22 | 39 | 1 | 52 | 22 | 41 | 1 | 6.0 | 52 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/toString