Location: origin 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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

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

The exact structure varies depending on the type of URL:

  • For URL using the http: or https: schemes, 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 following blob:. For example, blob:https://mozilla.org will have https://mozilla.org.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
console.log(window.location.origin); // On this page returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org'

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-location-origin-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also