HTMLAnchorElement: origin property - Web APIs | MDN (original) (raw)

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The**HTMLAnchorElement.origin** read-only property is a string containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the represented URL.

That is:

• for URL using the http or https, the scheme followed by'://', followed by the domain, followed by ':', followed by the port (the default port, 80 and 443 respectively, if explicitly specified);
• for URL using file: scheme, the value is browser dependent;
• for URL using the blob: scheme, the origin of the URL followingblob:. E.g. "blob:https://mozilla.org" will have"https://mozilla.org".

Value

A string.

Examples

// An <a id="myAnchor" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.origin; // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org'

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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See also

• The HTMLAnchorElement interface it belongs to.