Get escaped URL parameter

Question

I\'m looking for a jQuery plugin that can get URL parameters, and support this search string without outputting the JavaScript error: \"malformed URI sequence\". If there is

Answer 1

You can use the browser native location.search property:

function getParameter(paramName) {
  var searchString = window.location.search.substring(1),
      i, val, params = searchString.split("&");

  for (i=0;i

But there are some jQuery plugins that can help you:

• query-object
• getURLParam