Question

Im trying to read a query string from a url and alert a message based on the query string. The strings are being passed on perfectly, I am just haveing trouble reading them on the page. what am i doing wrong?

possible query strings

.../playlist.html?vid=1
.../playlist.html?vid=2

js

$(function () {
if (window.locaion.search.indexOf('vid=1') > -1) {
        alert('1');
} else if (window.locaion.search.indexOf('vid=2') > -1) {
        alert('2');
}
});

Answer 1

Two problems: you mistyped location, and you need to toString() it, because location isn’t a string. So the corrected version:

$(function () {
    if (window.location.toString().indexOf('vid=1') > -1) {
        alert('1');
    } else if (window.location.toString().indexOf('vid=2') > -1) {
        alert('2');
    }
});