HTMLAnchorElement: hostname property

{{ApiRef("HTML DOM")}}

The hostname property of the {{domxref("HTMLAnchorElement")}} interface is a string containing either the {{glossary("domain name")}} or {{glossary("IP address")}} of the <a> element's href. If the URL does not have a hostname, this property contains an empty string, "". IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are normalized, such as stripping leading zeros, and domain names are converted to IDN.

See {{domxref("URL.hostname")}} for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

// An <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.hostname; // returns 'developer.mozilla.org'

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• The {{domxref("HTMLAnchorElement")}} interface it belongs to.