HTMLAreaElement: 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.

Theorigin read-only property of theHTMLAreaElement interface returns a string containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the<area> element'shref.

The exact structure varies depending on the type of URL:

For URLs using theftp:,http:,https:,ws:, andwss: schemes, theprotocol followed by//, followed by thehost. Same ashost, theport is only included if it's not the default for the protocol.
For URLs usingfile: scheme, the value is browser dependent.
For URLs using theblob: scheme, the origin of the URL followingblob:, but only if that URL uses thehttp:,https:, orfile: scheme. For example,blob:https://mozilla.org will havehttps://mozilla.org.

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

SeeURL.origin for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

// An <area href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the documentconst area = document.getElementById("myArea");area.origin; // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org'