Using location.search to locate a parameter's value

Question

I’m working on a tool which takes the value parameters in the URL and does a few things with them.

My issue is, I can’t seem to use document.location to show the specifi

Answer 1

location.search will return all after question mark including it. So there is universal js to get value of the first parameter (even if url has more parameters):

var desire = location.search.slice(1).split("&")[0].split("=")[1]

Example: let's take url http://example.com?name=jon&country=us

1. location.search will be equal to ?name=jon&country=us
2. .slice(1) skips the ?, returning the rest of the string.
3. .split("&")[0] splits it into two strings (name=jon and country=us) and takes first one
4. .split("=")[1] splits name=jon into name and jon and takes the second one. Done!