HTMLAnchorElement: username property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLAnchorElement.username
property is a
string containing the username specified before the domain name.
Value
A string.
Examples
Getting the username from an anchor link
js
// An <a id="myAnchor" href="https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementByID("myAnchor");
anchor.username; // returns 'anonymous'
Specifications
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HTML # dom-hyperlink-username-dev |
Browser compatibility
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See also
- The
HTMLAnchorElement
interface it belongs to.