Simplest way is to use a regular expression: var location = /[?&]location=(\w+)&?/.exec( location.search );
there are also plugins to deal with the query string (a bit overcomplicated but can be useful): http://plugins.jquery.com/project/query-object http://plugins.jquery.com/node/6222 cheers, - ricardo On Apr 20, 9:26 pm, budduke <b...@budduke.com> wrote: > I looked through the board but can not find any info for what I am > needing, > for the persistant:location highlight, I need it to not look at the > entire url string, just part of it. > using php my links havehttp://www.myweb.com/good_link.php?location=here&page=5 > the string should only be looking for everything before the & symbol. > I can not figure out how to do this. > I know it is all happening in the case area of the script but can not > figure out how to filter out everything from the & to the end of the > string to compare with the url. > > thanks for any help you can send my way, > Buddy Duke
