javascript - Constructing a URL with parameters using jQuery

Question

I have for example the following URL stored in a global variable:

var myUrl = "http://mydomain.com/something?row=1";

Then a function has to add let's say another parameter called "column". How would that function add parameters to a pre-existing URL string using jQuery?

Example of the expected generated string:

"http://mydomain.com/something?row=1&column=9"

The problem is that myUrl could also be just:

var myUrl = "http://mydomain.com/something";

(Notice that there are not pre-existing parameters)

Answer 1

Check out the jQuery function .param(), that should do the trick.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.param/

You can then just create a function which appends the string generated by .param() to a url.