what are the components of url?

Question

can you describe the components of url such as, '#','?' and '%' used in url's.
such as example,
https://www.something.com/file/?abc=url
and
https://www.something.com/somepath#/path
and
similarly for '%'

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
? is used to mention the parameters you are passing through URL to the server.

Eg. https://www.google.com/search?q=sololean

Here a query 'sololearn' is passed to Google to give us results.

# is use to describe the ID selector. In a big webpage, there are many sections, thus to redirect user to a particular section of same page, we use #.

Eg. https://themify.me/demo/themes/parallax/#contact

% is URL encoding character. It is used with predefined numbers. Eg. %20 means a space.

A space in the URL is normally replaced with a plus (+) sign or with %20.