Parse an URL in JavaScript

Question

How do I parse an URL with JavaScript (also with jQuery)?

For instance I have this in my string,

url = "http://example.com/form_image_edit.php?img_id=33"

I want to get the value of img_id

I know I can do this easily with PHP with parse_url(), but I want to know how it is possible with JavaScript.

user_7320844 · Answer

var url = window.location;
var urlAux = url.split('=');
var img_id = urlAux[1]

Worked for me. But the first var should be var url = window.location.href

user_220877 · Answer

Web Workers provide an utils URL for url parsing.