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Location: toString() method

Baseline Widely available

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.

Syntax

toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string representing the object's URL.

Examples

// 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'

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
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