I know that this question has been asked more than once here. But the issue I'm facing is a bit different that the one's I checked in previous questions.

I'm retrieving the Category in a variable from the URL in my JS by doing this-

$scope.category = url.split("=")[1]

This would be a sample URL-

sitename/pagename.aspx?Category=Cars

I'm facing an issue when there is a space in the category. Say if the URL is like this-

sitename/pagename.aspx?Category=Super%20Cars

Can you please lemme know how to replace the %20 by a space along with the url.split.

Sure this isnt a right one-

$scope.category = decodeURIComponent(url.split("=")[1]);

Lemme know if you need more info guys. :)

I know that this question has been asked more than once here. But the issue I'm facing is a bit different that the one's I checked in previous questions.

I'm retrieving the Category in a variable from the URL in my JS by doing this-

$scope.category = url.split("=")[1]

This would be a sample URL-

sitename/pagename.aspx?Category=Cars

I'm facing an issue when there is a space in the category. Say if the URL is like this-

sitename/pagename.aspx?Category=Super%20Cars

Can you please lemme know how to replace the %20 by a space along with the url.split.

Sure this isnt a right one-

$scope.category = decodeURIComponent(url.split("=")[1]);

Lemme know if you need more info guys. :)

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• you mean decodeURIComponent(url.split("=")[1]); ? – Jaromanda X Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 4:30
• yes, typed it wrong :) – theLearner Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 4:35
• Are you not able to replace directly like var txt = url.replace("%20"," "); ? – Vickyexpert Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 4:41
• Gosh, I dunno how I missed it..:D:D..Its working ..Thanks man..:D – theLearner Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 4:44
• Enjoy your coding, you can accept answer below – Vickyexpert Commented Aug 23, 2016 at 4:47

5 Answers 5

You can try this:

url.split('%20').join(' ');

You can do it by below syntax:

 var url = window.location.href;    
 var tempUrl = url.replace(/%20/g," ");
 $scope.category = tempUrl.split("=")[1]

You need to use decodeURI to achieve this. http://www.w3schools./jsref/jsref_decodeuri.asp

Use decodeURI global function available in javascript. http://www.w3schools./jsref/jsref_decodeuri.asp

var url="http://www.dummyserver./index.php?param1=hello%20world";
var queryParams=url.substring(url.indexOf("?") + 1).split("&");
for(i=0;i<queryParams.length;i++){
var splitParam = queryParams[i].split("=");
alert("Param: " + splitParam[0] + " :: Value:" + decodeURI(splitParam[1]));
}

You can convert the url into string first and then replace %20 with the space and then split,it should work,can try like this:

var str = 'sitename/pagename.aspx?Category=Super%20Cars'; 
var res = str.toString();
res = res.replace('%20',' ');
category = decodeURIComponent(res.split("=")[1]);