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URL.canParse

Category

JavaScript

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 120)

Intent stage

None

• Breaking change: No
• Enterprise impact: None
• Spec maturity: Published standard
• Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: Covered under url/ directory, and functionality is close to trivial.

Summary

A static operation to determine whether a URL string is valid. More concise than catching an exception thrown from the URL constructor.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-url-canparse
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1425839

Ecosystem

• Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=url-canparse
• Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+URL.canParse
• MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=URL.canParse
• Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=URL.canParse

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