URLUnencoded

HTML (DHTML)

URLUnencoded Property

Internet Development Index

Retrieves the URL for the document, stripped of any character encoding.

Syntax

[ sUrl = ] document.URLUnencoded

Possible Values

sUrlString that receives the URL of the document.

The property is read-only. The property has no default value.

Remarks

For more information about URL character encoding issues, refer to RFC-1738 on Uniform Resource Locators (URL) Non-Microsoft link.

Example

The following illustrates the difference between the value returned by the URLUnencoded property versus the value returned by the URL property of the document.

<SCRIPT>
function window.onload()
{
oURL.innerText = document.URL;
oURL2.innerText = document.URLUnencoded;
}
</SCRIPT>
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Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this property.

Applies To

document