URL: hostname 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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The hostname property of the URL interface is a string containing the domain name of the URL.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const url = new URL(
  "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/hostname",
);
console.log(url.hostname); // Logs: 'developer.mozilla.org'

Specifications

Specification
URL
# dom-url-hostname

Browser compatibility

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See also

  • The URL interface it belongs to.