HTMLAreaElement: target 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.

The target property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string that indicates where to display the linked resource.

It reflects the target attribute of the <area> element.

A string representing the target. Its value can be:

The name of a <frame>.
One of the keyword with specific values: _blank, _self, _parent, or _top.

html

<map name="image-map">
  <area href="www.example.com" target="_top" alt="left" />
</map>

const areaElement = document.getElementsByName("image-map")[0].areas[0];
console.log(areaElement.target); // Output: "_top"

Specification
HTML Standard # dom-area-target

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android
`target`	1	12	1	≤12.1	1	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0	4.4