HTMLAnchorElement: 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 HTMLAnchorElement.origin read-only property is a string containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the represented URL.

That is:

  • for URL using the http or https, the scheme followed by '://', followed by the domain, followed by ':', followed by the port (the default port, 80 and 443 respectively, if explicitly specified);
  • for URL using file: scheme, the value is browser dependent;
  • for URL using the blob: scheme, the origin of the URL following blob:. E.g. "blob:https://mozilla.org" will have "https://mozilla.org".

Value

A string.

Examples

js
// An <a id="myAnchor" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.origin; // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-hyperlink-origin-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also