Location: 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 July 2015.

See full compatibility

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The origin read-only property of the Location interface returns a string containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the location's URL.

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

console.log(window.location.origin); // On this page returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org'

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-location-origin-dev

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile							server
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS	Deno
`origin`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 8 (Release date: 2010-12-02) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 21 (Release date: 2013-05-14) 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 21 (Release date: 2013-05-14) 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	Deno – No support Deno 1.7 (Release date: 2021-01-19) disabled disabled From version 1.7 users must explicitly set the `--location [url]` runtime flag.

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Full support: Full support
No support: No support
: See implementation notes.
: User must explicitly enable this feature.

Location: origin property

Value

Examples

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Browser compatibility

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