This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since December 2018.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The toJSON() method of the URL interface returns a string containing a serialized version of the URL, although in practice it seems to have the same effect as URL.toString().
toJSON()
None.
A string.
const url = new URL( "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/toString", ); url.toJSON(); // should return the URL as a string
| Specification |
|---|
| URL> # dom-url-tojson> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
toJSON |
71 | 17 | 54 | 58 | 11 | 71 | 54 | 50 | 11 | 10.0 | 71 | 11 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/toJSON