HTMLAnchorElement: 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 HTMLAnchorElement interface is a string containing the host, which is the hostname, and then, if the port of the URL is nonempty, a ":", followed by 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 anchor = document.createElement("a");

anchor.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAnchorElement";
anchor.host === "developer.mozilla.org";

anchor.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org:443/en-US/HTMLAnchorElement";
anchor.host === "developer.mozilla.org";
// The port number is not included because 443 is the scheme's default port

anchor.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org:4097/en-US/HTMLAnchorElement";
anchor.host === "developer.mozilla.org:4097";

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-hyperlink-host-dev

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
host

See also