URL: 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 2015.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The toString() method of the URL interface returns a string containing the whole URL. It is effectively a read-only version of URL.href.

Syntax

js
toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string.

Examples

js
const url = new URL(
  "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/toString",
);
url.toString(); // should return the URL as a string

Specifications

Specification
URL Standard
# URL-stringification-behavior

Browser compatibility

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See also

  • The URL interface it belongs to.