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 username
property of the HTMLAnchorElement
interface is a string containing the username component of the <a>
element's href
. If the URL does not have a username, this property contains an empty string, ""
.
This property can be set to change the username of the URL. If the URL has no host
or its scheme is file:
, then setting this property has no effect.
The username is percent-encoded when setting but not percent-decoded when reading.
See URL.username
for more information.
Value
A string.
Examples
Getting the username from an anchor link
// 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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See also
- The
HTMLAnchorElement
interface it belongs to.