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 April 2018.

See full compatibility

The origin read-only property of the HTMLAnchorElement interface returns a string containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the <a> element's href.

The exact structure varies depending on the type of URL:

For URLs using the ftp:, http:, https:, ws:, and wss: schemes, the protocol followed by //, followed by the host. Same as host, the port is only included if it's not the default for the protocol.
For URLs using file: scheme, the value is browser dependent.
For URLs using the blob: scheme, the origin of the URL following blob:, but only if that URL uses the http:, https:, or file: scheme. For example, blob:https://mozilla.org will have https://mozilla.org.

For all other cases, the string "null" is returned.

See URL.origin for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

// 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 # dom-hyperlink-origin-dev

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
`origin`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 8 (Release date: 2010-12-02) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 17 (Release date: 2018-04-30) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 26 (Release date: 2013-12-10) footnote footnote Before Firefox 49, results for URL using the `blob` scheme incorrectly returned `null`.	Opera – Full support Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 5.1 (Release date: 2011-07-20) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 26 (Release date: 2013-12-10) footnote footnote Before Firefox for Android 49, results for URL using the `blob` scheme incorrectly returned `null`.	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 14 (Release date: 2013-05-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 5 (Release date: 2011-10-12) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 3 (Release date: 2011-02-22) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 5 (Release date: 2011-10-12) footnote Full support

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HTMLAnchorElement: origin property

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Examples

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