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 July 2015.

The HTMLAreaElement.username property is a string containing the username specified before the domain name.

Value

A string.

Examples

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
HTML Standard
# dom-hyperlink-username-dev

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android
username 32 79 26 19 10 32 26 19 10 2.0 4.4.3

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAreaElement/username