HTMLAreaElement: password 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 HTMLAreaElement.password property is a string containing the password specified before the domain name.

If it is set without first setting the username property, it silently fails.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAreaElement"> is in the document
const area = document.getElementByID("myArea");
area.password; // returns 'flabada'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-hyperlink-password-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also