HTMLAreaElement: 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 January 2020.

The username property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string containing the username component of the <area> 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

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

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-hyperlink-username-dev

Browser compatibility

See also