HTMLAreaElement: 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.
The protocol
property of the HTMLAreaElement
interface is a string containing the protocol or scheme of the <area>
element's href
, including the final ":"
. If the port is the default for the protocol (80
for ws:
and http:
, 443
for wss:
and https:
, and 21
for ftp:
), this property contains an empty string, ""
.
This property can be set to change the protocol of the URL. A ":"
is appended to the provided string if not provided. The provided scheme has to be compatible with the rest of the URL to be considered valid.
See URL.protocol
for more information.
Value
A string.
Examples
Getting the protocol of an area link
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementById("myArea");
area.protocol; // returns 'https:'
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML # dom-hyperlink-protocol-dev |
Browser compatibility
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- Full support
- Full support
See also
- The
HTMLAreaElement
interface it belongs to.