URL: protocol 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 protocol property of the URL interface is a string representing the protocol scheme of the URL, including the final ':'.

Value

A string.

Examples

js

const url = new URL(
  "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/protocol",
);
console.log(url.protocol); // Logs "https:"

Specifications

Specification
URL Standard # dom-url-protocol

Browser compatibility

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See also

The URL interface it belongs to.