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URL.canParse

Category

JavaScript

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 120)

Intent stage

None

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

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