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HTMLAreaElement: username property - Web APIs | MDN
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HTMLAreaElement: username property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The username property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string containing the username component of the <area> element's href. If the URL does not have a username, this property contains an empty string, "".
This property can be set to change the username of the URL. If the URL has no host or its scheme is file:, then setting this property has no effect.
The username is percent-encoded when setting but not percent-decoded when reading.
See URL.username for more information.
Value
A string.
Examples
Getting the username from an area link
js
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementByID("myArea");
area.username; // returns 'anonymous'
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # dom-hyperlink-username-dev |
Browser compatibility
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See also
- The
HTMLAreaElementinterface it belongs to.