Document: URL 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.

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The URL read-only property of the Document interface returns the document location as a string.

Value

A string containing the URL of the document.

Examples

JavaScript

document.getElementById("url").textContent = document.URL;

HTML

html

<p id="urlText">
  URL:<br />
  <span id="url">URL goes here</span>
</p>

Result

Specifications

Specification
DOM # ref-for-dom-document-url①

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`URL`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Partial support Firefox 1 – 18 (Release date: 2004-11-09) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Firefox – Full support Firefox 19 (Release date: 2013-02-19) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 3 (Release date: 1997-12-01) footnote Full support	Safari – Partial support Safari 1 – 2 (Release date: 2003-06-23) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Safari – Full support Safari 3 (Release date: 2007-10-26) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Partial support Firefox for Android 4 – 18 (Release date: 2011-03-29) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 19 (Release date: 2013-02-19) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 10.1 (Release date: 2010-11-09) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Partial support Safari on iOS 1 – 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 2 (Release date: 2008-07-11) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Partial support WebView on iOS 1 – 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Partial support footnote Only supported for `HTMLDocument`, not all `Document` objects. WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 2 (Release date: 2008-07-11) footnote Full support

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Document: URL property

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