HTMLAreaElement: 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.
The origin
read-only property of the HTMLAreaElement
interface returns a string containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the <area>
element's href
.
The exact structure varies depending on the type of URL:
- For URLs using the
ftp:
,http:
,https:
,ws:
, andwss:
schemes, theprotocol
followed by//
, followed by thehost
. Same ashost
, theport
is only included if it's not the default for the protocol. - For URLs using
file:
scheme, the value is browser dependent. - For URLs using the
blob:
scheme, the origin of the URL followingblob:
, but only if that URL uses thehttp:
,https:
, orfile:
scheme. For example,blob:https://mozilla.org
will havehttps://mozilla.org
.
For all other cases, the string "null"
is returned.
See URL.origin
for more information.
Value
A string.
Examples
js
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementById("myArea");
area.origin; // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org'
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML # dom-hyperlink-origin-dev |
Browser compatibility
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- Full support
- Full support
- See implementation notes.
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See also
- The
HTMLAreaElement
interface it belongs to.