Window: origin property

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The origin read-only property of the {{domxref("Window")}} interface returns the origin of the global scope, serialized as a string.

Value

A string.

Examples

Executed from inside window scope, the following snippet will log the document's global scope's origin to the console.

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

If the origin is not a scheme/host/port tuple (say you are trying to run it locally, i.e., via file:// URL), origin will return the string "null".

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• WorkerGlobalScope.origin
• {{Glossary("origin")}} glossary term