Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/browngraphicslab/Dash-Web into cont_menu_ui

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/new_fields/URLField.ts b/src/new_fields/URLField.ts
index a6f8f1cc5..4a2841fb6 100644
--- a/src/new_fields/URLField.ts
+++ b/src/new_fields/URLField.ts
@@ -18,13 +18,18 @@ export abstract class URLField extends ObjectField {
     @serializable(url())
     readonly url: URL;
 
-    constructor(url: URL) {
+    constructor(url: string);
+    constructor(url: URL);
+    constructor(url: URL | string) {
         super();
+        if (typeof url === "string") {
+            url = new URL(url);
+        }
         this.url = url;
     }
 
     [ToScriptString]() {
-        return `new ${this.constructor.name}(new URL(${this.url.href}))`;
+        return `new ${this.constructor.name}("${this.url.href}")`;
     }
 
     [Copy](): this {