HTMLAreaElement: host 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 host property of the port of the URL. If the URL does not have a hostname, this property contains an empty string, "".

See URL.host for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const area = document.createElement("area");

area.href = "/cats-d8c4vu/developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement";
area.host === "developer.mozilla.org";

area.href = "/cats-d8c4vu/developer.mozilla.org:443/en-US/HTMLAreaElement";
area.host === "developer.mozilla.org";
/ The port number is not included because 443 is the scheme's default port

area.href = "/cats-d8c4vu/developer.mozilla.org:4097/en-US/HTMLAreaElement";
area.host === "developer.mozilla.org:4097";

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-hyperlink-host-dev

Browser compatibility

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